Review Excerpt: ..." Pre-historical fiction as a genre is a field against which competition can be expected to be stiff and the qualifying bar even for entry to the contest is very high indeed.
Jack Rourk's debut entry clears the bar with plenty of room to spare. A pastoral, quiet yet deeply moving and compelling story, CRO-MAGNON 25000 BP lacks a significant plot-line at the outset but makes it up with a beautiful portrayal of tribal life during the waning years of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon co-existence in a brief warm spell between ice ages. Rourk has touched on so many topics in so few pages and done it so well that it's almost hard to believe - early spiritualism and creation legends; astronomy; hunting; the development and "manufacture" of weapons; tribal justice; shamanism and medicine; tribal warfare; animal and human migration; and much more."...
CRO-MAGNON 25,000 BP [size=14pt]"A journey back to Ice Age Europe at the dawn of modern man and human culture." [/size]
Publication Date: December 19, 2012
GRADE 6 TO ADULT: Total 187 CreateSpace Paperback Pages, 35,500 Words. Book # 1 of a series.
A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME TO ICE AGE EUROPE AT THE DAWN OF MODERN MAN AND HUMAN CULTURE.
25,000 years ago: When a young girl comes home to find her family and tribe killed, she must flee for her life from the killers who came from the east. Escaping the killers, she realizes she has nowhere safe to run. Or live. Where to run? Where will she now live with all of her tribe dead?
She remembers a story her tribe's shaman told around the campfire many times, about a young shaman and wise man long ago, who had stayed with her tribe for a short time, when he was on his sacred spirit journey. The story said he was from a great tribe far to the west and south. It would be a journey of nearly two moons across a hostile and dangerous landscape filled with predators like saber cats, lions, and hyenas.. She sets out to the west, to the lands of the setting sun in today's Southern France. It was her only choice...and it changes her life forever.
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AR0T3Q0
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AR0T3Q0
A KU Selection
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Jack Rourk's debut entry clears the bar with plenty of room to spare. A pastoral, quiet yet deeply moving and compelling story, CRO-MAGNON 25000 BP lacks a significant plot-line at the outset but makes it up with a beautiful portrayal of tribal life during the waning years of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon co-existence in a brief warm spell between ice ages. Rourk has touched on so many topics in so few pages and done it so well that it's almost hard to believe - early spiritualism and creation legends; astronomy; hunting; the development and "manufacture" of weapons; tribal justice; shamanism and medicine; tribal warfare; animal and human migration; and much more."...
CRO-MAGNON 25,000 BP [size=14pt]"A journey back to Ice Age Europe at the dawn of modern man and human culture." [/size]
Publication Date: December 19, 2012
GRADE 6 TO ADULT: Total 187 CreateSpace Paperback Pages, 35,500 Words. Book # 1 of a series.
A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME TO ICE AGE EUROPE AT THE DAWN OF MODERN MAN AND HUMAN CULTURE.
25,000 years ago: When a young girl comes home to find her family and tribe killed, she must flee for her life from the killers who came from the east. Escaping the killers, she realizes she has nowhere safe to run. Or live. Where to run? Where will she now live with all of her tribe dead?
She remembers a story her tribe's shaman told around the campfire many times, about a young shaman and wise man long ago, who had stayed with her tribe for a short time, when he was on his sacred spirit journey. The story said he was from a great tribe far to the west and south. It would be a journey of nearly two moons across a hostile and dangerous landscape filled with predators like saber cats, lions, and hyenas.. She sets out to the west, to the lands of the setting sun in today's Southern France. It was her only choice...and it changes her life forever.
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AR0T3Q0
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AR0T3Q0
A KU Selection
