The Mammoth Hunters Earth's Children. The Shelters of Stone. H/B 1st editions.

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The Shelters of Stone. By Jean M. Auel - 1st edition Hardback, very good condition, no inscriptions, minor scuff marks to edges, dust jacket minor fading to spine, minor shelf wear. 784 pages Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2002 ISBN: 0340821957 Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity; to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii.

The Mammoth Hunters. By Jean M. Auel Hardback, no inscriptions, tanned, minor shelf wear, dust jacket minor shelf wear to edges. 639 pages Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1987 ISBN: 0340349344 Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi: the Mammoth Hunters. But as she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to Ranec, their master-carver. Ultimately, she is compelled to make a fateful choice between the two men.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