Prehistoric
Wolf Brother
The Stone Age, Scandinavia. Torak of the Wolf Clan is only twelve when the bear kills his father. With his…
The Spirit and the Skull
Stealing life is forbidden to the People, a Paleolithic tribe crossing Alaska’s tundra. Nevertheless, Tall Pine is found strangled. It…
The Burning Shadow
Bronze Age Greece. In this, the second Gods and Warriors book, Hylas, the Outsider; Pirra daughter of the High Priestess…
Shaman
Billed as a coming-of-age story set 30,000 years ago during the height of the Ice Age, the novel follows the…
Song Hunter
40,000 BC, and an Ice Age looms. The Stonemen, a small Neanderthal clan, have just killed a mammoth in preparation…
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Brian Fagan is a marvel, not just in his encyclopedic knowledge of history, archaeology, and anthropology, but in the way…
Secrets of the Wolves
In this second volume of the Wolf Chronicles series, young wolf Kaala deals with the fallout arising from her heretical…
People of the Bear Mother
Author Austin, impressed by Jean Clottes’ book on the Pont’ d’Arc cave-painting discoveries of Jean Marie Chauvet in 1994, sets…
The Dawn Country
The Dawn Country concerns the peoples of the Iroquois in the generation before the coming of their great peacemaker Deganawidah,…
The Land of Painted Caves
Having read the previous five books of this series, I looked forward to this sixth volume, expected to be the…
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