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Primera parte de LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA®, el inicio de las aventuras de la pequeña Ayla. La más bella saga prehistórica jamás contada (Novela histórica de acción y aventuras)
En la última fase de la Era Glacial un terremoto deja a la pequeña Ayla, de cinco años, aislada de su tribu. Afortunadamente encuentra refugio entre los miembros del clan, un grupo de neandertales.
Valiente e indomable, la joven infunde al principio sorpresa, luego cautela, hasta que, por fin, es aceptada. Sobre todo, por Iza, la curandera y Creb, el hechicero, que cuidan de ella. El futuro líder del clan, Broud, es el único que sigue mirándola con recelo, y hará todo lo posible para destruirla. Pero Ayla está protegida por el totém del León Cavernario, un espíritu fuerte que la escogió por ser una superviviente.
Tras ser expulsada del Clan del Oso Cavernario, la joven Ayla decide buscar a los que son como ella, los cromañones, y emprende un viaje lleno de peligros y aventuras hasta que encuentra una cueva donde refugiarse durante un tiempo.
Su extraordinario instinto de supervivencia y su mente inquieta la conducirán a grandes descubrimientos, como hacer fuego «de piedra» y domesticar animales; entre otros a la yegua Whinney, que se convertirá en su fiel compañera. Además, tendrá que combatir la soledad y el dolor por ese hijo de «espíritus mezclados» que tuvo que dejar atrás.
El destino conduce a Ayla hasta Jondalar, un zelandonii herido, a quien lleva a su cueva para curarlo. Durante unos meses comparten habilidades, aventuras y sentimientos.
Ayla y Jondalar deciden vivir una temporada cerca del Mar Negro, con los Mamutoi, quienes cazan Mamuts no sólo para alimentarse, sino también para obtener pieles, marfil y otros muchos recursos que honran espiritualmente. Ayla se verá obligada a demostrar su valía como ser humano y su pureza de corazón para ser acogida por una gente que la desprecia por haber sido criada con los hombres del Clan, a quienes consideran simples animales.
Quinto título de la serie LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA®, comienza justo en el mismo punto en el que los lectores despidieron a los dos protagonistas en LAS LLANURAS DEL TRÁNSITO. Nuestra protagonista Ayla y su compañero Jondalar llegan hasta el Valle de la Dordoña francesa, tierra donde habita la tribu de la familia de Jondalar, los Zelandonii.
Ayla y Jondalar emprenderán un viaje a caballo hacia sus lugares de origen, el curso de su aventura será a través de grandes llanuras batidas por el viento en la Europa de la Era Glacial. Conocerán otras tribus, que por no conocer la domesticación de animales ni los métodos de curación, les consideran seres enigmáticos y temibles. En su viaje aprenderán que el mundo desconocido puede ser difícil y traicionero, pero también profundamente bello y aleccionador.
Traducida a 35 idiomas, LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA® es una de las series más conocidas y de más éxito de la historia del mundo editorial. Sus ventas suman por el momento más de 45 millones de ejemplares, 3 de ellos sólo en EspAña y AMérica Latina. Jean M. Auel combina sus brillantes dotes narrativas y unos personajes atractivos con una sorprendente recreacIón de la manera de vivir de hace miles de años, plasmando el terreno y convirtiendo los lugares, los deseos, las creencias, la creatividad y la vida cotidiana de los europeos de la Era Glacial en algo muy real para el lector de hoy en día.
Hace ya muchos años que Ayla, la niña cromañón, fue expulsada del Clan del Oso Cavernario y que inició; su largo viaje por todo el continente europeo. Finalmente, en este libro, La tierra de las cuevas pintadas, se ha establecido en la cueva de donde procede su compañero Jondalar, con quien ha tenido una muy deseada hija llamada Jonayla. La joven lucha por encontrar un equilibrio entre sus nuevas obligaciones como madre y su preparacIón para convertirsé;en líder espiritual y en curandera. Durante su formación queda muy impactada al contemplar las maravillosas pinturas que se encuentran en algunas cuevas y le ayudan a sentirse especialmente cercana a la Madre Tierra.
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself.
Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship.
One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series
• A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series
Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have never seen tame animals--Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands, but also for his skill as a crafter of stone tools, and for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower.
In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. All the pain and pleasure bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on earth they can call home.
As sweeping and spectacular as the land she creates, Jean M. Auel’s The Plains of Passage is an astonishing novel of discovery, danger, and love, a triumph for one of the world’s most original and popular authors.
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series
• A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series
Der packende zweite Band des Zyklus «Die Kinder der Erde». Aylas Geschichte geht weiter. Sie trifft Jondalar, einen Mann aus dem Volk der «Anderen», und aus anfänglicher Abneigung entsteht Freundschaft und eine tiefe Liebe. Zusammen begeben sich die beiden auf eine lange und gefährliche Reise durch das spätere Europa.
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
THE VALLEY OF HORSES
THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS
THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE
THE SHELTERS OF STONE
THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES
A natural disaster leaves a young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become the Clan’s next leader sees Ayla’s differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
Praise for the Earth’s Children® series
“Auel is a highly imaginative writer. She humanizes prehistory and gives it immediacy and clarity.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Storytelling in the grand tradition . . . From the violent panorama of spring on the steppes to musicians jamming on a mammoth-bone marimba, Auel’s books are a stunning example of world building. They join the short list of books, like James Clavell’s Shogun and Frank Herbert’s Dune, that depict exotic societies so vividly that readers almost regard them as ‘survival manuals.’ ”—Vogue
“Jean Auel has established herself as one of our premier storytellers. . . . Her narrative skill is supreme.”—Chicago Tribune
“Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating best.”—Los Angeles Times
“Readers who fell in love with little Ayla will no doubt revel in her prehistoric womanhood.”—People
“Lively and interesting, enhanced greatly by the vividly colored backdrop of early humanity . . . Auel is a prodigious researcher.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers. . . . She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic, and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The first book in the internationally bestselling Earth's Children series, an epic work of prehistoric fiction beloved by generations of readers.
When an earthquake destroys her family's camp, Ayla is left orphaned and alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land, her likelihood of survival slim.
But then she is found by a woman of the Clan, a people very different from her own kind. To them Ayla looks peculiar and ugly, her blonde hair and blue eyes marking her out as one of the Others, who have recently invaded their ancient homeland. Yet Iza, the Clan's medicine woman cannot leave the child to die.
As Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's ways of healing, Iza grows to love her, and the rest of the Clan to accept her. Everyone, that is, except Brun, the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader. Where others see similarity, he can only see difference, and as his hatred for the strange girl of the Others deepens, he grows determined to get his revenge . . .
Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Clan of the Cave Bear is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive.
'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times
'A major bestseller . . . A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express
The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.
Ayla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are home. Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
Once again, Jean M. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news.
Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual.
Praise for Jean M. Auel
'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times
'A major bestseller . . . A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express
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