The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Book One): with Bonus Content (Google eBook)

Jean M. Auel

Random House Digital, Inc., Oct 6, 2010 - Fiction - 528 pages

This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• An exclusive preview chapter from Jean M. Auel’s The Land of Painted Caves, on sale in hardcover March 29, 2011
• An Earth’s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel’s bestselling series
• A Q&A with the author about the Earth’s Children® series


This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.

A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

What people are saying

Review: The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children #1)

User Review  - David Shaw - Goodreads

Only two books have ever caused me to nose-dive into the life of an amputee and go about my daily life one-handed; Daggerspell, the first of the Deverry Cycle by Katherine Kerr, and Clan of the Cave ...

Review: The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children #1)

User Review  - Dan - Goodreads

The best book I've ever read. Though out the series we see Ayla really grow as a character and you really feel the highs and lows though out all the books. Beautifully written I feel as though I've ...

About the author

Jean M. Auel is an international phenomenon. Her Earth's Children® series has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and includes The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves. Her extensive research has earned her the respect of archaeologists and anthropologists around the world. She has honorary degrees from four universities and was honored by the French government's Ministry of Culture with the medal of an "Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters". She lives with her husband, Ray, in Oregon.


From the Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Book One): with Bonus Content; Earth's children, Jean M. Auel
• Author: Jean M. Auel
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 2010
• ISBN: 0307767612, 9780307767615
• Length: 528 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Literary