The Mammoth Hunters by Auel, Jean M - 1986

Bantam Books. Fair. 1986. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are yellow stained. All four cover corners have two creases. There is a line of the number 8 stamped from front to back across the top page edge. ; Earth's Children Series; Vol. 3; Thick 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 723 pages; In this third of the acclaimed Earth's Children novels, Ayla, the independent heroine of THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR and THE VALLEY OF HORSES, sets out from the valley on Whinney, the horse she tamed. With her is Jondalar, tall, handsome and yellow-haired, the man she nursed back to health and came to love. Together they meet the Manutoi-the Mammoth Hunters-people like Ayla. Among them is Ranec, an artistic, magnetic master carver of ivory. Ayla finds herself torn between Ranec and Jondalar, the latter a powerful lover but insecure and wildly jealous. It is not until the great mammoth hunt, when Ayla's life is threatened, that a fateful decision is made. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .