New Releases by Jean M Auel

A true publishing phenomenon, Jean M. Auel''s prehistoric odyssey is one of the best-loved sagas of our time. Leave 21st century London and go back to Ice Age Europe. Follow Ayla, a Cro-Magnon child who loses her parents in an earthquake and is adopted by a tribe of Neanderthal, the Clan. See how the Clan''s wary suspicion is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl, so different from them, under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Immerse yourself in a world dictated by the demands of survival in a hostile environment, and be swept away in an epic tale of love, identity and struggle. All six parts of the legendary Earth''s Children® series are brought together in this eBook omnibus THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR THE VALLEY OF HORSES THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE THE SHELTERS OF STONE THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES Jean Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today''s news. ''Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers.'' - Kirkus Reviews

A literary phenomenon, Jean M. Auel’s prehistoric odyssey is one of the best-loved sagas of our time. Employing meticulous research and the consummate artistry of a master storyteller, Auel paints a vivid panorama of the dawn of modern humans. Through Ayla, an orphaned girl who grows into a beautiful and courageous young woman, we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world, home to the Clan of the Cave Bear. Now, for the first time, all six novels in the Earth’s Children® series are available in one convenient eBook bundle: THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR THE VALLEY OF HORSES THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE THE SHELTERS OF STONE THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES A natural disaster leaves a young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become the Clan’s next leader sees Ayla’s differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge. Praise for the Earth’s Children® series “Auel is a highly imaginative writer. She humanizes prehistory and gives it immediacy and clarity.”—The New York Times Book Review “Storytelling in the grand tradition . . . From the violent panorama of spring on the steppes to musicians jamming on a mammoth-bone marimba, Auel’s books are a stunning example of world building. They join the short list of books, like James Clavell’s Shogun and Frank Herbert’s Dune, that depict exotic societies so vividly that readers almost regard them as ‘survival manuals.’ ”—Vogue “Jean Auel has established herself as one of our premier storytellers. . . . Her narrative skill is supreme.”—Chicago Tribune “Pure entertainment at its sublime, wholly exhilarating best.”—Los Angeles Times “Readers who fell in love with little Ayla will no doubt revel in her prehistoric womanhood.”—People “Lively and interesting, enhanced greatly by the vividly colored backdrop of early humanity . . . Auel is a prodigious researcher.”—The Washington Post Book World “Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers. . . . She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic, and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Genauestens recherchiert und grandios erzählt Von Millionen Lesern sehnsüchtig erwartet: Jean M. Auel legt nun den krönenden Höhepunkt ihrer Steinzeit-Saga vor, einer der erfolgreichsten Romanserien aller Zeiten. Ayla wird von der großen Heilerin der Neunten Höhle als Nachfolgerin auserkoren. Sie bricht auf zu Reisen der Initiation voller Erkenntnisse und Gefahren. Dabei merkt sie kaum, wie sehr ihre Beziehung zu Jondalar darunter leidet . . .

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth’s Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks. Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life, searching for wild edibles to make meals and experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandonii must take while honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And there are the Sacred Caves that Ayla’s mentor takes her to see. They are filled with remarkable paintings of mammoths, lions, and bears, and their mystical aura at times overwhelms Ayla. But all the time Ayla has spent in training rituals has caused Jondalar to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death, but through them Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change her world. BONUS: This edition contains a reading guide and an interview with Jean M. Auel. Sixth in the acclaimed Earth’s Children® series.

Det begyndte med Hulebjørnens klan... Nu er Ayla tilbage! Med Hulernes sang afslutter Jean M. Auel sagaen om istidspigen Ayla - en af verdens største bogsucceser, med et salg på mere end 45 millioner eksemplarer verden over. I Hulernes sang fortsættes sagaen om istidspigen Ayla. Som femårig måtte hun lære at overleve i en storslået og nådesløs natur, da et jordskælv udslettede alle hendes nærmeste. Siden blev hun optaget i en klan af neandertalere, hvor hun levede som outsider og blev oplært af medicinkvinden Iza. Udstødt fra klanen måtte hun igen klare sig på egen hånd, lære at jage og helbrede sig selv. Hun tæmmede en hest og opfostrede en ulv, som blev hendes nærmeste venner, og hun mødte en enlig rejsende, Jondalar, som tog hende med til sit folk og gjorde hende til sin mage. Sammen har de nu fået datteren Jonayla, og Ayla er i træning til at blive Zelandoni, en spirituel leder og healer. Det er et ærefuldt hverv, men også svært at forene med hendes nye rolle som mor. På trods af at hun nu er tilbage hos et folk, der ligner hende selv, stikker hun ud på grund af sin mærkelige accent og fremmedartede væremåde. Ingen her har før set en kvinde, der har tæmmet en ulv og har en så enestående evnet til at aflæse naturen. Det er ikke alle, der er lige begjstrede for den fremmedartede kvinde.

Het slot van de met de NS Publieksprijs bekroonde serie De Aardkinderen De serie De Aardkinderen vertelt het verhaal van het mysterie van het ontstaan van de mensheid en de harde strijd om in de prehistorie te overleven. Jean Auels boeken hebben al miljoenen lezers meegevoerd naar de boeiende prehistorische wereld van Ayla en haar tijdgenoten. In dit zesde en laatste deel van de serie kunnen haar vele fans eindelijk lezen hoe het afloopt met Ayla, Jondalar en hun dochtertje Jonayla. De saga gaat verder met de opleiding die Ayla geniet tot Zelandoni, een spiritueel leider en genezer. Ze wordt de acoliet van de Zelandoni van de Negende Grot en ze begint aan een reeks intensieve reizen die deel uitmaken van haar heilige training. Maar het dagelijks leven in de prehistorie is zwaar en Ayla worstelt om de juiste balans te vinden tussen haar spirituele roeping en haar taak als jonge moeder van Jonayla. De gevolgen kunnen niet uitblijven en haar relatie met Jondalar komt onder spanning te staan... Wederom weet Jean Auel haar talent voor het vertellen van verhalen en het creëren van boeiende personages te combineren met een opmerkelijke herschepping van het leven zoals het duizenden jaren geleden door de mens werd geleefd. Het leefgebied, de schuilplaatsen, de verlangens, het geloof, de creativiteit en het dagelijks leven van de Zelandoniërs zijn allemaal net zo echt als de werkelijkheid die de lezer dagelijks op het nieuws ziet. Het lied van de grotten is een briljante prestatie van een van de meest geliefde schrijvers ter wereld. ‘***** Wellicht valt Auel te porren tot een zevende deel, want dit smaakt naar meer, veel meer...’ – Algemeen Dagblad ''Auels kracht is dat ze een klassieke good read combineert met wetenschappelijk gefundeerde informatie over het tijdvak waarin ze haar verhaal situeert: de jonge ijstijd. [...] Auel weet het allemaal kundig en gedetailleerd in haar vertelling te vervlechten.'' – de Volkskrant

MAMMUTJÆGERNE er tredje bind i serien Jordens Børn. Ayla forlader sin dal sammen med Jondalar, den mand hun har elsket og holdt sammen med, siden hun fandt ham hårdt såret efter et overfald af en løve. De møder Mamutoi-folket, Mammutjægerne, og Ayla nærmer sig dem med både frygt og nysgerrighed. Hun bliver optaget af deres musikinstrumenter, af deres levevis og bopladser - og ikke mindst tiltrækkes hun af den mørke, flotte Ranec, der er mester i at skære elfenbensfigurer. Mammutjægerne fascineres af hende, af hendes lægekunst, hendes dygtighed som jæger og hendes evne til at tæmme vilde dyr. I MAMMUTJÆGERNE beskriver Jean M. Auel farlige jagter, hverdag og storslåede fester, kærlighed og lykke - kort sagt livet som det kan have formet sig for mænd, kvinder og børn i istiden for 25.000 år siden. ”Bogens over 700 sider fastholder læseren til sidste side.” - Kristeligt Dagblad

(Versión para México y Centroamérica) Hace ya muchos años que Ayla, la niña cromañón y protagonista de la serie LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA©, fue expulsada del Clan del Oso Cavernario e inició su largo viaje por el continente europeo. Finalmente, en este libro, La tierra de las cuevas pintadas, se ha establecido en la Novena Caverna de los zelandonii, lugar de donde procede su compañero Jondalar, con quien ha tenido una hija muy deseada, llamada Jonayla. Ayla hace todo lo posible por encontrar el equilibrio entre sus nuevas obligaciones como madre y su preparación para convertirse en líder espiritual y en curandera, aunque no siempre lo consigue. Durante su formación también tiene oportunidad de viajar y visitar lugares desconocidos, entre ellos algunas cuevas, que le causan un gran impacto por las maravillosas pinturas que se encuentran en su interior, creadas por sus antepasados. En este sexto volumen, Jean M. Auel (Chicago, EU, 1936) continúa reconstruyendo lo que pudo ser la forma de vivir en la Prehistoria, con el rigor científico que caracteriza su obra.

This enhanced eBook includes: • Eight never-before-seen video interviews with Jean M. Auel where she discusses The Clan of the Cave Bear and the Earth’s Children® series: “You Must Be Able to Change in Order to Survive,” “Jondalar and Ayla,” “On Language," “Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals: The Crossbreeding Question,” “On Research (and Glaciers),” “The Domestication of Horses and Wolves,” “The Painted Caves,” and “What Is It Like Finishing a Series?” • An excerpt from The Land of Painted Caves • An Earth’s Children® series sampler • A text Q&A with Jean M. Auel • The full text of the novel This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

Ayla y Jondalar se despiden de los cazadores de mamuts y emprenden un largo viaje a través de Europa que durará más de un año, hacia las tierras de Jondalar, territorio de los zelandonii, lo que hoy en día es el Sur de Francia. La pareja, acompañada de dos caballos y un lobo amaestrado, se expone a grandes peligros al atravesar ríos, glaciares y desiertos.

The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills. But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii. Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detail—based on meticulous research— that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth’s Children® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth’s Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series • A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series

This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series • A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series

Un clan nòmada neandertal recull Ayla, una nena cromanyó perduda i ben estranya per a ells: és gairebé tan alta com un home, té els cabells rossos i els ulls blaus. Ayla trobarà en el clan una família i es farà gran aprenent els rígids hàbits que el regeixen, però la seva presència serà cada vegada més conflictiva a mesura que ella no pugui reprimir els impulsos dictats per un cervell preparat per pensar i no sols per imitar, i comenci a transgredir els costums ancestrals del clan. Rigorosament documentada, aquesta novel·la d''impressionant bellesa i força, reflecteix sentiments universals tot submergint el lector en una història humana apassionant.

The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills. But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii. Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detail—based on meticulous research— that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth’s Children® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth’s Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone.

In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar''s mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can''t quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn''t just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed ''abominations.'' What would Jondalar''s tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel''s first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It''s an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age.

La insostenible situación con los cazadores de mamuts, en el tercer libro de la serie, obliga a Ayla y Jondaler a emprender un largo viaje hacia sus lugares de origen. El curso de su aventura a caballo será a través de grandes llanuras batidas por el viento en la Europa de la Era Glacial, entre inhóspitas barreras de glaciares. Recorrerán territorios ocupados por tribus de cazadores-recolectores que, por no conocer la domesticación de animales, ni métodos de curación, les consideraban seres enigmáticos y temibles. En su viaje a través del continente aprenderán que el mundo desconocido puede ser difícil y traicionero, pero también, profundamente bello y aleccionador. Ambos se acercan cada vez más a ese sitio en la tierra al que todos llaman hogar.

Las experiencias de Ayla en los dos primeros libros de esta saga y, sus vivencias con un hombre que llega de una cultura más evolucionada que existe en alguna parte (homosapiens), la han convertido en un personaje excepcional. Conviven ahora con una agrupación humana en la que ya se advierten los perfiles de una sociedad evolucionada: aparecen los poderes político-religiosos, y entre medias está la Mujer que Cura, puesto que viene a ocupar Ayla por méritos propios. Representa así la autoridad científico-moral en una sociedad de cazadores-recolectores cada vez más compleja, donde empiezan a perfilarse conceptos abstractos como el arte, la libertad, la tolerancia, los celos. Cuando parecía que iba a enraizar definitivamente con esta cultura, genuinos representantes de los Otros, el destino cambia de nuevo su rumbo.

Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children® series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home.

The fifth installment of Auel''s Earth''s Children series, a sweeping story of love and danger with all the wonderful detail based on meticulous research, is available in this Spanish language edition and continues the saga which began with The Clan of the Cave Bear.

El presente es primer libro de la saga llamada "Los hijos de la tierra"; con el cual se da comienzo a las aventuras de su protagonista: Ayla, una niña cromagnon de 5 años, queda aislada de su tribu por culpa de un terremoto. Pese a ser de una estirpe más desarrollada, es acogida por un grupo de Neardentales, que basa sus razonamientos y comportamientos en las experiencias de sus antepasados. Ayla, el siguiente eslabón evolutivo, introduce el adelanto y la renovación y se convierte pronto en una niña fuerte e independiente con un desarrollado instinto de supervivencia. Sus cualidades innatas provocan conmoción y rechazo en la sociedad con la que convive y es expulsada por el jefe del clan hacía un futuro incierto.

Im vierten Band des spannenden Zyklus "Die Kinder der Erde" reitet die schöne und kluge Ayla mit ihrem Gefährten Jondalar durch das Tal des Grossen Mutter Flusses - Jondalars Heimat entgegen. Grosse Gefahren sind zu überwinden. Sie begegnen treuen Freunden und erbitterten Gegnern, doch beiden sind sie an Fähigkeiten und Erfindungsreichtum überlegen. Jean M. Auel ist Jahrgang 1936. Nach ihrem Wirtschaftsdiplom sucht sie 1977 eigentlich nach einem gutbezahlten Job im Bankwesen, um ihre Kinder zu ernähren. Parallel dazu beginnt sie einen Roman zu schreiben, und als sie eine Führungsposition angeboten bekommt, ist sie bereits mit Leidenschaft Schriftstellerin. Um weiterschreiben zu können, verzichtet sie auf das sichere Gehalt. Zu Recht, denn ihre Steinzeit-Romane werden zu Knüllern mit Kultcharakter. Jean M. Auel ist fünffache Mutter und vielfache Grossmutter und lebt in Oregon.

Le long périple d''Ayla et de Jondalar touche à son terme. Après un voyage épique à travers l''Europe, les deux héros de la grande saga " Les enfants de la terre " arrivent à l''emplacement de la Neuvième Caverne, un camp de l''âge de pierre situé dans ce que l''on appellera de nombreux millénaires plus tard le Périgord. C''est là que Jondalar retrouve la tribu qui l''a vu naître, et qui se réjouit de son retour. L''accueil fait à l''étrangère qui l''accompagne est plus mitigé. Cette femme parle avec un accent curieux et, surtout, est suivie par un loup et deux chevaux sur lesquels elle exerce un pouvoir troublant. Mais, si la rescapée du Clan étonne les Zelandonii, ceux-ci la surprennent tout autant par leur faon de vivre dans leurs confortables abris-sous-roche et par la splendeur des peintures dont ils ornent leurs grottes. Alors qu''elle donne naissance à un enfant très attendu, la jeune femme prend conscience du rôle qu''elle est appelée à jouer dans la destinée des Zelandonii... Dans ce cinquième volume de sa somptueuse saga préhistorique, Jean Auel puise de nouveau dans ses connaissances scientifiques pour décrire avec son immense talent de conteuse les débuts de l''agriculture et de la domestication des animaux, ainsi que ce tournant dans l''histoire de l''humanité que représenta la maîtrise de la pensée abstraite, du langage et de l''art.

Passé la surprise et l''émerveillement suscités par Ayla, la jeune étrangère aux cheveux blonds qu''ils ont recueillie, les hommes du " clan de l''ours " ont pris peur de ses dons extraordinaires. Parce qu''elle prétend chasser comme les hommes, parce qu''elle sait rire et pleurer, éprouve des sentiments inconnus d''eux, parce qu''elle voudrait garder son enfant pour elle seule enfin, Ayla sera maudite et exilée. " Pars à la recherche de ton peuple, lui a dit Iza la guérisseuse. Va vers le nord, retrouve ton clan et un compagnon." Un long voyage solitaire commence, au bout duquel Ayla rencontre deux jeunes gens insouciants et aventureux. L''un d''eux est Jondalar. Comme elle, il est blond et ses yeux sont bleus.

La fin des aventures d''Ayla, la "première femme de l''histoire de l''humanité"