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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780812507454
ISBN number: 0812507452
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 576
Printing Date: September 15, 1994
Publishing house: Tor Books
Sale Popularity Level: 229307
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The glaciers of the Sierra Nevada are melting, destroying the habitat of the mastodons, creating the rich land that will become California. The coastal people struggle to understand the changing world around them: their seer Sunchaser has lost his way to the Spirit World, and mammoths continue to disappear.
When a beautiful woman arrives, fleeing from her abusive husband, the people know what they must do--for if the Spirits are already taking the animals away, what will happen if they shelter a stranger?
Now Sunchaser must make a choice--between the woman he loves and the preservation of his people's world.
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I was very excited to find this book in hardback. I have the whole series and hadn't been able to find a hardback copy to read and put on my shelf with all the other "People". It seemed it was missing something that some of the other books have, it was still good, and still had lots of information, but I didn't seem to get into the book as quickly as others. Still I would recommend it!
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I've loved everything I've read by the Gears and I've read just about everything they have published. Wonderful interposing of fiction onto the facts! They use their expertise as anthropologists and as story tellers to combine what really has been found about North American Indians and interpose a very believable story onto it. They really make the past come alive! The inclusion of what has really been found by anthropologists adds tremendously to the books!
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I really liked the saperate storys of the 2 main characters a lot better than the combined story of the 2. I liked the story of kestral a lot she is pragnet by a another man and is running from her husband and she has to survive by her self.
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I liked this one. It's a charming saga of prehistoric peoples somewhere in California. Our heroine gets afoul of her husband for adultery, and decides to run off instead of facing the death penalty allotted to her. Her angry husband and his brothers follow her for weeks with murderous intent. During her escape we read of her many exploits trying to throw them off her trail, the birth of her baby alone in a cave, and how she manages to cross a raging river with the newborn. Always heading west, finally she's taken in by a coastal tribe. Meanwhile the coastal tribe has their own problems. The mammoth migration has declined in recent years and they are forced to look elsewhere for a home. The angry husband eventually shows up and a deadly confrontation results. I found the story readable. The battered wife, angry husband confrontation is a bit overdone. Do we really believe that he would spend a year and risk death to find and kill a adulterous woman who ran off and kept going? I didn't believe it. The disaster that befalls the coastal tribe is a little overboard too, but I guess it's almost believable. With those exceptions it's a good entertaining read for the hot tub on an afternoon.
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Seeing WolfDreamer again was like hearing from a long lost friend, like a message from the past. I found the scene with him and Sunchaser in the future at the ruins of Chaco Canyon to be some of the most powerfull writing they have done so far. The Spirals crying out for WolfDreamer to save them and now knowing what became of Green Ash's(People of the River) son Born of Water was gutwrenching. You can relate to the panic the people must have been feeling watching their world change before their eyes, having mammoths drown themselves and forgetting what some animals looked like must have been unsettling to them. It also dosen't help that their best Dreamer has lost his way to the One and has fallen for a hunted woman. The only annoying side of the story was Lambkill,he was a bit to inhuman too evil and crazed to care about or even feeling the least bit sorry for him.
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