Land of Painted Caves / Jean Auel / 757 pages

If you like marathon reading and detailed historical fiction, this is the book for you. It's the 6th and final volume in the Earth's Children series set in pre-historic Europe during the Ice Age which the author began in 1980. It is fascinating to speculate what life was like for humans during this period; how they survived; what they believed. A good story and you will enjoy this one even if you haven't read the previous books. Just be careful of which roots you use with the mammoth, bison, red deer, auroch or other meat you carry around for several days before eating. And oh, you ecologists will be thrilled....nothing goes to waste whether wolverine or cattail.