I have to admit that this is my least favorite book in the series, my copy has 975 pages which makes it an incredibly long read and now that I'm on my 5th read through of the series I confess I did skim read through quite a few of the descriptive passages. The journey isn't going to be an easy one and they will face various dangers on the way but can they make it across the glacier before spring causes the ice to start melting? He wants to return to his people and share the discoveries he has made and Ayla just wants to find a home where she can settle down and start a family. In The Plains of Passage we follow Ayla and Jondalar on their epic journey to the home Jondalar left 5 years ago. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France from which Jondalar set out years before as a young man.Īccompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion Racer and the mare Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home. Auel's magnificent epic of life on the glacial continent of the last Ice Age, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.Īyla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller leave the safety of the land of mammoth hunters by the Black sea and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across the whole of a continent.
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