After being cast out of the Clan that had adopted her as a child by the new leader, Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race. Reprint.
After being cast out of the Clan that had adopted her as a child by the new leader, Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race. Reprint.
"Jondar is the ultimate civilized Cro-Magnon, a well-muscled, artistic, spear-throwing Cary Grant. And it is Ayla...who invents oral sex, horseback riding, a new technique for making fire, and a better way of dragging the kill back to the cave. But despite all this 'The Valley of Horses' is great fun to read. Jean M. Auel has created ancestors who do us all credit."