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The Valley of Horses

Earth’s Children, Book 2

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The Valley of Horses

By: Jean M. Auel
Narrated by: Rowena Cooper
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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.

©1982 Jean M. Auel (P)2003 AudioGO Ltd
Fiction Historical Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A panorama of human culture in its infancy ... The Valley of Horses is great fun." ( New York Times Book Review)
"Holds the reader in a powerful spell." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Fantastic

Absolutely loved continuing the story. Couldn't stop listening. The detail when explaining scenes and narration are wonderful.

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Great story but too much erotica

Great continuation of Ayla's story and interesting new characters. I love the descriptions of the natural environment and geological formations etc too. I like how you're able to know and get inside the character's heads.
I only didn't give 5 stars because sex scenes happened too often. Not bad if you like erotica, but I would prefer the story with much less frequency.

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can not stop listening

Read the first book The Clan of the Cave Bear and hoped the second book was going to be as good... IT WAS INCREDIBLE.. About to download the third in the series.

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Can recommend this book

Very much enjoyed this book. Very relaxing and easy to listen to. Good car trip book.

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I adore this whol series, this is my favourite book

I have loved listening to the story, after having read it at least 30 time. I just had to skip over the saucy bits, too much listening to those!!

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another fantastic book on the series

loved it, will listen again. good reality break.
hard at times to differentiate between characters by voice.

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Fantastic book

Just as amazing as the first book. Can’t believe I haven’t found this series before now

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The past of a forgotten Civilisation

It was amazing to learn how people used to live with their own made tools and how nature was part of it including animals and the knowledge of plants.
I am looking forward to the 3rd book „The Mammuts Hunter“

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I absolutely love this entire series!

The entire Earths children series is my absolute favorite story that i have ever read!

I will definitely be sharing this story with my little girl when she is old enough and with many others. It is Inspiring, entertaining, amusing and educational. I am so grateful to Jean Auel for taking the time to write this and I truly hope that one day the film created of this series will go to air and become a world wide hit so that we can discover more about our ancestral past, in order for human kind to reconnect with what we have lost in this day and age.

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Valley of horses

I just loved this book, now on to the next one, can't wait ... 😁

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