Quest for Fire and Clan of The Cave Bear

[TurboGirl]

I had to have a re-read thanks to this thread too.... I'm up to the third book and find myself skip reading much more REALLY looking forward to Chronicles of Ancient Darkness but Mears Wild Food is taking all the reading space allowed

 

[boatman]

May I suggest that if you enjoyed these that a different kind of read is Margaret Elphinstone, "The Gathering Night" set in Mesolithic Scotland with coracles and bushcraft plus a look at a different kind of morality and mindset to our own.
http://www.margaretelphinstone.co.uk/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/0994?opendocument&part=2

 

[TurboGirl]

Well, am delighted with the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness books, defo raid the young adults section of your library for them, they're gggrrrrrreattttt! And I found the Margaret Elphinstone book too so when I've trawled thru Michelle Pavers series, I have something else to look forward to- thank you, bushbros

 

[forestwalker]

. At the point I'm up to Ayla has invented animal husbandry, fire from sparks, the wheel, hunting with hounds... And I'm pretty sure she rides a sabre tooth tiger at one point!

Also, has anyone replicared her famous "two stones" sling technique? And was that the only things she invented? ISTR the atlatl as well...

 

[forestwalker]

IIRC she got a lot of information from Jim Riggs, at least for the early books, which should means that the facts about the how-to bits should be spot on.

 

[shaggystu]

Well, am delighted with the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness books, defo raid the young adults section of your library for them, they're gggrrrrrreattttt! And I found the Margaret Elphinstone book too so when I've trawled thru Michelle Pavers series, I have something else to look forward to- thank you, bushbros

really glad you're enjoying them sally

 

[Sherwood]

If you have freesat , Quest for fire is often on there, on movies4men...

 

[oldtimer]

My wife has read all these and also Sarah Donati's books which deal with pioneering and travelling in the wilderness. I wondered how she had gained such a comprehensive theoretical knowledge of bushcraft. And I thought it was just what had rubbed off in 50 years of living with me!

 

[boatman]

[h=3]If you enjoyed The Gathering Night try "Early in Orcadia" by Naomi Mitchison. Tentative but brave travels out to the islands, building a boat,the perils of depending on barley and the different view of morality and even Standing Stones while worrying about a porridge pot. I enjoyed it along with Elphinstone's and "The Boy with the Bronze Axe" by Kathleen Fidler which brings us to the birth of the Bronze Age up North and another ecological disaster.[/h]

 

[mbiraman]

Have read most of the Earth Children series. Really only luke warm on one which was The Mammoth Hunters. I liked The Valley of Horses and Plains of Passage the best with COTCB a close second. Haven't read the last one. I'm not that critical when i read and i just enjoyed the everyday happenings of that period of time. The only thing that put me off throughout the series was the ongoing in depth erotic descriptions of Ayla's and Jondalar's love making. Seemed a bit out of place.

bill