Attar of the Ice Valley

"Attar is a story of our Neanderthal ancestors, who lived in the world's ice ages and managed to subsist, hunt, and raise their children in territory as climatically terrible as modern Greenland. It tells the story of one small tribe who, under the leadership of their wisest man, Old Huru, and Attar, a young hunter of more than average intelligence, at last makes it away from the hunted-out ice valley to a more promising land. Before this happens, Attar proves himself in a fight-to-death with Black Ear the dungo (wolf), goes down into the cavern of the Great Bear who rules all things, dares the spirits of the ice heights, and along with Huru and his sister braves the water-that=never=freezes to lead the tribe to safety."


Genre: Children's Fiction