staying in a comfortable cave until next winter with friends. This is really wonderful since they need to cross a glacier before spring! If they don’t get there in time, they might have to resort to…. Anyways, continuing with the synopsis, since Ayla and Jondalar are super, they have tamed horses, can heal all wounds with plants, and make great time. If an epic journey across ice-age Europe sounds like an interesting novel, look elsewhere or write your own.
If you don’t understand what I just said, you are obviously not familiar with the series at all and should stop reading this review, since it is about book 5 in a long long series. Super-Cro Magnons Ayla and Jondalar leave their happy situation with the Mamutoi in quest of Jondalar’s people, the Zelandoni, which involves traveling all across prehistoric Europe. Auel’s The Plains of Passage is an astonishing novel of discovery, danger, and love, a triumph for one of the world’s most original and popular authors.Yikes, this book was hard to get through. All the pain and pleasure bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on earth they can call home.Īs sweeping and spectacular as the land she creates, Jean M. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends.
The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands, but also for his skill as a crafter of stone tools, and for the new weapon he devises, the spear-thrower. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. To the hunter-gatherers of their world-who have never seen tame animals-Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues.Īyla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers.
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