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Alle vijf huidige delen van de Aardkinderen serie in het engels, txt formaat. Informatie over de serie (per boek):

The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Clan of the Cave Bear was released in September 1980 and is a story of personal development set in pre-historic southern Europe during the current Ice Age but before the last glacial period.

The first book, "The Clan of the Cave Bear", introduces Ayla, the female protagonist, a Cro-Magnon child of about five, orphaned in an earthquake-induced cave-in and wounded by a cave lion. She is adopted by a tribal group of Neanderthals who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear and who refer to Ayla as "one of the others"— an allusion and nod to the "relatively" recent evolution and migration of Cro-Magnon tribes into Clan territories. The Clan has just been driven out of its home by the earthquake, and the treatment of Ayla's wounds by the Clan's Medicine Woman Iza is initially in doubt. Influenced by sister-brother bonds, the Clan's leader Brun reluctantly gives permission for his sister to treat the child, which leads, inevitably, as he grumbles to himself, to her adoption — but only when she proves to be a token of good luck; Ayla finds the cave they thereafter make their home.

The Valley of Horses
The Valley of Horses was released in September 1982. Ayla, cast out of the Clan, has been forced to follow the advice given her in the first book by her dying foster-mother Iza. She goes in search of "the Others" — that is, people like herself: European Cro-Magnon Homo sapiens, or early-modern humans, returned west and north to Europe after an incubation period of tens of millennia in the near and far east.

Ayla settles in a small valley for the winter and lives alone for nearly three years. During that period, she is free to explore innovative and creative impulses, including raising and training animals whilst coping with the strength and speed limitations of a single human being who must hunt wild game with primitive technology.

The Mammoth Hunters
The third book in the series, The Mammoth Hunters was released in Fall 1985. It details Ayla's personal growth as she learns to cope with a society of widely-disparate individuals and their unpredictable behaviors, mysterious motivations, and habits. Traveling about on a pre-winter holiday and exploring nearby regions on horseback, Ayla and Jondalar meet and end up making a prolonged visit with a tribe known as The Lion camp of the Mamutoi, (Mamutoi meaning: "Mammoth Hunters of the Great Earth Mother 'Mut'"), who live relatively near Ayla's valley in the present-day Ukraine.

The Plains of Passage
The Plains of Passage was released in November 1990. Ayla and Jondalar travel west, back to Zelandonii territory, encountering dangers from both nature and humans along the way. Her interactions often force the people around her to take a broader view and be more accepting of new ideas.

The Shelters of Stone
The Shelters of Stone was released on 30 April 2002, and is the most recent novel of the series. Ayla and Jondalar reach the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, Jondalar's home, and prepare to marry and have a child. Unfortunately, nothing is ever simple, especially for a woman with Ayla's background.

The sixth book
A sixth installment in the Earth Children's series is currently being written. Auel's son, Kendall, had this to say on the subject:

    Jean is still busy-busy-busy writing, at her house on the Oregon coast. I know she's very anxious to get the book finished but she has her own way of working, and it wouldn't be a good idea trying to change it. It's possible that this segment of the story will be split into two books, extending the series to seven instead of six as originally planned.

Ik zou mijn adem niet inhouden tijdens het wachten op het zesde deel, tenslotte is ze al 30 ( !!! ) jaar bezig met deze serie. Geduld is een schone zaak zullen we maar denken..

Veel plezier ermee weer!
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