The Shelters Of Stone
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included. Earth’s Children Book #5
“When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses.”
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii facinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in the great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. In the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave, she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.
As Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included. Earth’s Children Book #5
“When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses.”
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii facinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in the great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. In the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave, she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.
As Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included. Earth’s Children Book #5
“When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses.”
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii facinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in the great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. In the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave, she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.
As Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.
ISBN 0-609-61059-7
Jean Auel
2002