The Plains of Passage
by Jean M. Auel
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Author: Jean M. AuelEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-25
ISBN: 0553381652
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Bantam
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- ISBN13: 9780553381658
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Book Review: The Plains of Passage
Summary: 4 Stars
The Plains of Passage is the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series and continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar.
They are leaving the Mamutoi whom they have spent the winter with, and along with their horses and wolf, they are starting the long journey back to the Zelandonii...and the journey is long...about 850 pages long.
They cross many, many rivers, think of many, many ways to carry items on horseback, and have lots and lots of repetitive sex.
I enjoyed the description of the animals, scenery, and plants throughout the book but found it just too drawn out and repetitive. Each group they meet has the same reaction to the horses, wolf, thread puller, spear thrower, etc. and some of this could definitely have been shortened. I also didn't much care if they made it across the rivers after the third or fourth one.
Despite these things, this is still a wonderful novel and series. These were among the first adult novels I ever read and now am enjoying them again 15 years later. Jean Auel takes us back to a world that most of us don't think about very often and the challenges people would have faced in those early years.
I have never read the Shelters of Stone and am looking forward to reading it next.
Summary of The Plains of Passage
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.
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