The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man - Softcover

Waterloo, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530201683 ISBN 13: 9781530201686

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well. Ab is a Stone Age boy who grows to young manhood amid the many dangers of his times. With his friend, Oak, he digs a pit and catches a baby rhinoceros, participates in a mammoth hunt with the tribe to prove himself a man, and courts the young women from a neighboring tribe. One girl in particular, Lightfoot, holds the attention of both men, and Ab is forced to kill his friend in a savage fight. He wins Lightfoot for his mate, but is haunted by guilt for his murdered companion. As Ab grows older, he helps the tribe kill a marauding sabre-tooth tiger, leads his people in a great battle against an invading tribe, and eventually becomes the leader of the cave men, and the patriarch of a large personal family. Ab is used by the author to support his contention that there was no sharp division between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, that man learned to make fine, polished tools and weapons gradually and naturally, as Ab does. During his life Ab invents and perfects the bow and arrow, and is the first of the primitives to domesticate wolves as pets.

About this title

About the Author

An American newspaperman, editor, newspaper owner, and author, Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was the author of A Man and a Woman, The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains, The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man, and The Wolf's Long Howl.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1530201683
• ISBN 13: 9781530201686
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160