The Clan of the Cave Bear AND The Valley of Horses - Jean M Auel - Hardcover - 1994

DIMENSIONS:   24cm x 16cm x 4cm

PAGES:     768 pages

WEIGHT:     840g

CONDITION:   Good with slight wear to the dust jacket.  It has been taped very neatly on the inside of the front cover.  There is also very slight yellowing to the pages

SYNOPSIS: 

The Clan of the Cave Bear  -  "   Ayla is a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthal. Ayla is cared for by the Clan's medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Iza teaches her how to find food and the healing skills known only to her line, but Ayla must also learn the ways of the Clan. Full of curiosity, interest and rebelliousness, she does not always obey the Clan's rules and so she makes an implacable enemy of the group's future leader. Broud will do all he can to destroy her, but Ayla is a survivor.    "

The Valley of Horses - "  Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But far to the west, two young Cro-Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's. Jean Auel's imaginative reconstruction of pre-historic life, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual, has become a set text in schools and colleges around the world.  "