"My name is Yanan and my story begins where it will end..." She was born over twenty thousand years ago, in a lodge on the ice-swept tundra, in a land where death was always near. Her people were hunters, living in kinship with the tigers and the ...
Set in prehistoric Siberia, a “psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative” novel by a New York Times"bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hun...
From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of Dogs From as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosa...
Bright and dazzling, a star appears behind the cedars on the eastern skyline. It is big and powerful, and it has a pure, clean scent, like something halfway between honey and water. Lila, the sheepdog, and Ima, the goat, are compelled to follow the s...
“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalaha...
The Dodoth -- a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda -- are a tribe in transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes lear...