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From Publishers Weekly
As they have in past works ( People of the River ; People of the Earth ), the Gears illuminate American prehistory by focusing on a personal story. Here, the setting is coastal California 12,000 years ago. Melting glaciers are causing the waters to rise, the huge animals that once populated the area are disappearing and the human inhabitants have to learn to adapt to the changes. Sunchaser the Dreamer, powerful spiritual leader of the People of the Sea, is tormented by his inability to explain or correct recent adverse events, including disease and the disappearance of food sources, when a strange woman wanders into his shelter. Kestrel is pregnant by her lover and, pursued by her vicious husband, has fled from her native inland marshes toward the sea, hoping to find a home among her lover's people, the Otter Clan. Kestrel and Sunchaser fall in love, and together they make their way to the Otter Clan village, whose residents are on the verge of falling under the dangerous influence of an unscrupulous Dreamer, Catchstraw, whose desperate search for power threatens everyone. The Gears, integrating a tremendous amount of natural and anthropological research into a satisfactory narrative, have again produced a vivid and fascinating portrait of early human life in America.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
With the fifth novel in their "First North Americans" series, the Gear husband-and-wife archaeologist team presents a fascinating saga of prehistoric Native Americans in contemporary Arizona and California. Pregnant with twins by her lover, Iceplant, Kestrel flees westward from her abusive husband, Lambkill, who carves Iceplant to death with a hunting knife. Kestrel's only hope for survival is to travel to the seacoast and seek refuge with Iceplant's people. Sunchaser, a visionary and legendary healer, is troubled by the escalating extinction of the revered mammoths and has gone into seclusion to dream for answers when he runs into an exhausted Kestrel. Meanwhile, a vengeful Lambkill tracks Kestrel as Sunchaser leads her to Iceplant's tribe. The story concludes in a fever-pitched climax when Kestrel's and Lambkill's paths cross. Kudos to the Gears for gracefully combining historical facts with a compelling adventure saga.
- Mary Ellen Els bernd, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Mary Ellen Els bernd, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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