How long does it take to read The Mammoth Hunters?
Jean M. Auel, J. M. Auel
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel, J. M. Auel takes about 13 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Earth's Children hexalogy
Previous: The Valley of Horses Next: The Plains of Passage
About 13 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1611. 719 pages, about 197,725 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 118 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla. Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare’s colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi--the Mammoth Hunters. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. Bringing back the single pup of a lone wolf she has killed, Ayla shows the way she tames animals. She finds women friends and painful memories of the Clan she left behind, and meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse--inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy that he tries to control by avoiding her. Unfamiliar with the ways of the Others, Ayla misunderstands, and thinking Jondalar no longer loves her, she turns more to Ranec. Throughout the icy winter the tension mounts, but warming weather will bring the great mammoth hunt and the mating rituals of the Summer Meeting, when Ayla must choose to remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or to follow Jondalar on a long journey into an unknown future.
Subjects: Fiction, Prehistoric peoples, Ayla (Fictitious character), Glacial epoch, Roman, Fiction, historical
