Plains of Passage by Jean M Auel (HC-2009/VG )

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The classic Plains of Passage by Jean M Auel: Earth’s Children. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Shelf/use wear and scuff. Jacket included. Crown Publishers Inc, New York. 1990. As is, no returns. See photos for condition, details, and visual description. 760 pages. English. Synopsis: The best-selling author of the Earth’s Children series continues the epic story of Ayla, the mythical heroine of Ice Age Europe. The Plains of Passage takes Ayla and the brave Jondolar on a dangerous cross-continental odyssey in search of that place they call home. From the Publisher: Jean Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children Series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. Now, in a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind… and to the captivating adventures of the courageous heroine called Ayla. With her companion, Jondolar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey–away from the welcoming hearth of the Mammoth Hunters, and into the unknown. their odyssey spans a beautiful but treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the bold pair among strangers. Some will become friends, intrigued by Ayla’s ways of taming wild horses and wolves. Others will become fierce enemies, threatened by what they cannot understand. But always the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondolar will heed the voice and vision that urges them on, deeper into the dark and spectacular heart of an unmapped world. For they are driven to reach that place on earth they can call home. Together, they hold their future in their hands. “Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating, best… Auel, a superb raconteur, has crafted a consistently engaging adventure story with a solid historical underpinning.” — Los Angeles Times.”Thrilling… This magical book is rich in details of all kinds… but it it the depth of the characters’ emotional lives… that gives the novel such a stranglehold.” –Cosmopolitan.