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Traducida a 35 idiomas, LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA® es una de las series más conocidas y de más exito de la historia del mundo editorial. Sus ventas suman por el momento más de 45 millones de ejemplar

In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks. Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life, searching for wild edibles to make meals and experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandonii must take while honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And there are the Sacred Caves that Ayla's mentor takes her to see. They are filled with remarkable paintings of mammoths, lions, and bears, and their mystical aura at times overwhelms Ayla. But all the time Ayla has spent in training rituals has caused Jondalar to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death, but through them Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change her world. Sixth in the acclaimed Earth's Children® series

Tras ser expulsada del clan de neandertales, la joven Ayla decide buscar a los de su propia estirpe, los cromañones, y emprende un viaje lleno de peligros y aventuras hasta que encuentra una cueva donde refugiarse durante un tiempo, cerca de la cual coincide con Jondalar, un desconocido que esta herido a quien curara y acabara amando.

Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home. 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.

The highly anticipated sixth book of Jean Auel's Earth's Children series, THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES is an exquisite achievement by one of the world's most beloved authors.

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.

Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity; to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii.

Ayla,unha nena Cro-Magnon de cinco anos queda soa no mundo tras unterremoto que fai desaparecer a súa tribo.Atacada por un ´león das cavernas, un grupo de neanderthalensesrescátaa dunha morte segura. Iza, a curandeira, acóllea como fillaadoptiva e lle transmite os seus coñecemento.Mog-ur, o gran meigo neanderthalense, percibe na nena a pegada dundos espíritos máis poderosos, o do león das cavernas, pero para oresto do clan sempre será unha estraña, una nena loura e de ollosazuis que posúe unha linguaxe vocálica insólita e unha habilidadeexcepcional para cazar, actividade prohibida para as mulleres do Clan.

Ayla is a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthal.Ayla is cared for by the Clan's medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Iza teaches her how to find food and the healing skills known only to her line, but Ayla must also learn the ways of the Clan. Full of curiosity, interest and rebelliousness, she does not always obey the Clan's rules and so she makes an implacable enemy of the group's future leader. Broud will do all he can to destroy her, but Ayla is a survivor.

THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni _ one of the Ninth Cave community''s spiritual leaders and healers.

Primera novela donde Ayla, una niña cromañón huérfana, vive aventuras en la fascinante Edad de Hielo.Un terremoto, en la última fase de la Era Glacial, deja a la pequeña Ayla, de cinco años, aislada de su tribu. Afortunadamente encuentra refugio entre los miembros del clan, un grupo de Neandertales. Valiente e indomable, la joven inspira al principio sorpresa, luego cautela, hasta que, por fin, es aceptada. Sobre todo, Iza, la curadera y Creb, el Hombre Santo, cuidan de ella. Solo el futuro lider del clan, Broud, sigue mirandola con recelo, y hara todo lo posible para destruirla. Pero Ayla esta protegida por el totem del Leon Cavernario, un espiritu fuerte que la escogio por ser una superviviente.Este año se cumplen 30 años de la primera publicacion de El clan del oso cavernario, la primera novela de la saga LOS HIJOS DE LA TIERRA.Para celebrar este feliz acontecimiento se publica esta edicion especial, limitada y numerada, en una version revisada y con nuevas ilustracione

Jean M. Auels enthralling Earths 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.