Plains of Passage (Earth's Children)
Auel, Jean M.
From Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 30 September 2012
From Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 30 September 2012
About this Item
First printing inscribed by the author on title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Soiling to cloth along top corner of rear panel. Very light rubbing to bottom corners and edges. Softening to spine ends. Light wear to leading edge, scuff mark to bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. Dust jacket in a mylar cover shows some isolated edge edge wear and mild sunning to spine. 760pp. Seller Inventory # CHAPjmaPP
Bibliographic Details
Title: Plains of Passage (Earth's Children)
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
The Plains of Passage continues the epic description of our civilisation as it was 25,000 years ago. Auel's protagonists Ayla the orphan and Jondalar the traveller decide to forsake the comfort and safety of life with the mammoth hunters by the Black Sea, and set out on a daunting odyssey. Their plan is to traverse a continent, heading for the Cro-Magnon settlement which Jondalar called home as a young man. Their journey across unimaginable distances is fraught with spectacular dangers, and their only companions are the half-tame Wolf, the magnificent stallion Racer and the mare Whinney.
As so often in Auel's work, it's the brilliantly evocative scene-setting that makes her narratives of high adventure so impressive. Characterisation is, as always, functional rather than inspired, but it's perfectly suited to the Technicolor landscapes the reader is confronted with. And the descriptive passages are as evocative as ever:
The rising sun peaked over the eastern edge with a blinding burst of light that illuminated an incredible scene. To the west, a flat, utterly featureless dazzling white plain stretched out before them. Above it the sky was a shade of blue she had never seen in her life. It had somehow absorbed the reflection of the red dawn, and the blue-green undertone of glacial ice...--Barry Forshaw
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