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In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from the aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs.

The Clan of the Cave Bear was nominated for numerous literary awards, including an American Booksellers Association nomination for best first novel. It was also later adapted into a screenplay for the film of the same name.

After the sales success of her first book, Auel has been able to travel to the sites of prehistoric ruins and relics, and also to meet many of the experts with whom she had been corresponding. Her research has taken her across Europe from France to Ukraine, including most of what Marija Gimbutas called Old Europe. In 1986, she attended and co-sponsored a conference on modern human origins at the School of American Research, Santa Fe. She has developed a close friendship with Doctor Jean Clottes of France, who was responsible for the exploration of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994.

By 1990, Auel's first three books in her Earth's Children series had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages; Crown Publishers paid Auel about $25 million for the rights to publish The Plains of Passage and the two subsequent volumes. By May 2002, on the cusp of the publication of the fifth book, the series had sold 34 million books. The sixth and final book in the series, The Land of Painted Caves, was published in 2011.

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.

Reviews

"A panorama of human culture in its infancy ... The Valley of Horses is great fun." - New York Times Book Review

"Holds the reader in a powerful spell." - Publishers Weekly

"I will definitely be sharing this story with my little girl when she is old enough and with many others. It is Inspiring, entertaining, amusing and educational. I am so grateful to Jean Auel for taking the time to write this and I truly hope that one day the film created of this series will go to air and become a world wide hit so that we can discover more about our ancestral past, in order for human kind to reconnect with what we have lost in this day and age." - Amazon.com reviewer

"A life-changing book, brought to life. Rowena, I now feel I know you. I listened to "Valley" last as it was my favourite as a young woman. Now in my later life, the messages speak to the modern world. " - Audible.com

"I read this series so many years ago and are rediscovering them as audiobooks. Absolutely loved the second book. Beautifully written and read." - Amazon.com.au review

"A fantastic story that should be compulsory for teenagers. It’s entertaining, emotionally evocative, and educational and you can’t tell the subjects have been researched and written about with a deep understanding. The sort of story that can ignite a life long love of reading and inspiration to be the best version of oneself possible." - Amazon.com review

On Media

Audiobook on 2 CD-ROMs, complete with cover art on the CDs. Supplied in windowed CD sleeves, no case provided.

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