![]() In its exquisite detail of a world that might have been, The Clan of the Cave Bear creates a new dimension of epic drama, and the timeless emotions that make it so human. Torn between two cultures, Ayla belongs to neither, but to herself, and to the future of Earth's Children. Her heart and mind soared with the desire to be herself. ![]() ![]() Ayla was unable to blindly follow, dumbly obey the unchanging ways of the Clan. The development of her brain was following a different path: she did not remember as well, but she learned more easily. As she grew older, the differences became more than physical. The series owes much of its appeal to Auel's feminist protagonist Ayla, a preternaturally resourceful woman with all the skills and abilities of men but without their warlike qualities. She was too tall, too different, too ugly. Published in 1980, The Clan of the Cave Bear became an instant bestseller, marking the start of the thrilling, totally original Ice Age saga, Earth's Children. Into this clan came young Ayla, a young girl they found and raised as one of their own. ![]() This is a saga of that time when the people who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear existed by hunting mammoth and other prey remained insulated by their customs, rituals, the great totems they revered were doomed by this same insulation. Over 35,000 years ago, in prehistoric Europe during the Ice Age, humanity as it eventually evolved was just beginning. Quarter yellow cloth, green paper boards. ![]()
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