The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children)

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Jean M. Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children) (1990, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media)

Turtleback, 495 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 1990 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.

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Book 1 of the Earth's Children® Series

In this first book of the beloved Earth's Children® series, Jean M. Auel takes readers back to the dawn of mankind and sweeps them up into the amazing and wonderful world of Ayla, one of the most remarkable heroines ever imagined.

Over 30,000 years ago, in a world we know but would not recognize, a young girl of five plays by herself on a creek bank. Suddenly, her world shifts, as a cataclysmic earthquake leaves her an orphan in a harsh Ice Age landscape.

A way away, a group of people now called Neanderthals also finds their world changed, as the quake destroys the cave they've called home. They must journey to find a new place to live.

It is during this odyssey that the Clan of the Cave Bear first encounters the lost child of “The Others” named Ayla. She is starving …

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  • Historical - General
  • Sagas
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical