I picked up this copy from the Friends of Tysons-Pimmitt used book sale in the town of Falls Church, Virginia. Tysons-Pimmitt Regional Library is a branch of the Fairfax County Public Library system. They hold a large sale bi-annually, and I couldn't miss the chance to pick up some favored titles, and the monetary donation will help keep the library continuing to provide valuable services for the community. Please visit their website at www.fcpl.org for more information.

Here is the book description from the publisher:

Returning to humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world--always driven to reach a place that they can finally call home.

Here are my thoughts on the book:

This fourth in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series depicts the journey of Ayla and Jondalar (with their horses and Wolf) to the home of Jondalar's people in what is now the Dordogne in France. It is exciting, philosophical, informative and romantic. Theirs is an epic journey across hard and dangerous glacial terrain, in which they come across other Cro-Magnon settlements as well as Neanderthals. The interactions between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals, and between Man and other Ice Age animal life illustrate graphically the destructive potential of our most "intelligent" of species. Jean Auel's research is so thorough that it is easy to believe that everything she writes COULD have happened. I have totally loved all the books and I very much hope that Auel will continue the series to the end in the future.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

This book is being released somewhere inside the National Zoo. BCinDC, the BookCrossers of the Greater Washington area, chose to spend an enjoyable day wandering around at the Zoo, enjoying the animals, the people, and of course, leaving books for others to find!

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Meh, I didnt actually read it. I brought it back with me at the behest of my sister. In any case, I'd love to see where this thing ends up.

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