Book Preview I am more grateful than I can say for the assistance of many people who have helped me to learn about the ancient world of the people who lived when glaciers advanced far south of today’s margins and covered a quarter of the earth’s surface. However, there are some details which I have … Read more
Book Preview The Clan of the Cave Bear E A R T H ‘ S CHILDREN™ Crown Publishers, Inc. New York THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER. Copyright © 1990 by Jean M. Auel All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, … Read more
Book Preview who has become a man to be proud of, and for CHRISTOPHER, BRIAN, and MELLISSA, ENTRY area — storage of fuel, implements, outer clothes FIRST hearth — cooking hearth and space for gathering SECOND — Lion Hearth FOURTH — Mammoth Hearth — space for ceremonies, gathering, projects, visitors FIFTH — Reindeer Hearth SIXTH … Read more
Book Preview She was dead. What did it matter if icy needles of freezing rain flayed her skin raw. The young woman squinted into the wind, pulling her wolverine hood closer. Violent gusts whipped her bearskin wrap against her legs. Were those trees ahead? She thought she remembered seeing a scraggly row of woody vegetation … Read more
Book Preview The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river. It didn’t occur to her to look back. Nothing in her experience ever gave her reason to doubt the shelter and those within it would be there when she returned. She splashed into … Read more