We are introduces to Ayla, a 5 year old girl homo sapien playing in a river when a massive earth quake occurs that kills her family and leaves her stranded in the wilderness on her own.
It's the large peninsula of land jutting into the north side of the black sea. This is set pretty much entirely in ancient Crimea, Ukraine. It has of course been fleshed out and had artistic license added to it but nothing in these books is outside the realms of the possible, and that frankly is lovely.
Everything from the weather, lay of the land, plants, animals, life styles of our ancient ancestors is as accurate to that time line as historians, archaeologists and scientists have been able to confirm using what discoveries they've made. This is aided by the extensive research that Auel did into the archaeological and natural history of the regions she has written about. 'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times 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. 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. Everyone, that is, except Brun, the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader. Yet Iza, the Clan's medicine woman cannot leave the child to die.Īs 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. 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. 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.īut then she is found by a woman of the Clan, a people very different from her own kind. The first book in the internationally bestselling Earth's Children series, an epic work of prehistoric fiction beloved by generations of readers.
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