Find Dance Of the Tiger by Kurten, Bjorn at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. I'll bet Kurten's Dance of the Tiger was source material for Jean Auel. While his novel doesn't have the pizazz of Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear, his is a far better scientific account of those times. If you're into palaeo-anthropological fiction, and you want to learn as much as one novel can tell you about the flora and fauna, the geographical features of what is now Scandinavia, clan culture of different tribes in the /5(43). Björn Kurtén has 22 books on Goodreads with ratings. Björn Kurtén’s most popular book is Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age.
Björn Kurtén Dance of the Tiger () from the dustjacket: A breakthrough in historical fiction, Dance of the Tiger plunges us into life 35, years ago, when two completely different species of human beings existed. This is the story of Tiger, son of the Chief of a peaceful village of Homo sapiens hunters, and his passion to avenge his people. Dance Of The Tiger by Björn Kurtén ISBN ISBN Paperback; New York: Berkley, September 1, ; ISBN Bjorn Kurten, an eminent European paleontologist, used this novel to present his ingenious theory to explain what happened. The story is told from the perspective of Tiger, a young black (Cro-Magnon) man whose father is killed in a raid by men from another band of blacks. Later, he devotes his life to searching for his father's killer.
Dance of the Tiger, By Björn Kurtén Inspire article. Dance of the Tiger, By Björn Kurtén. Author (s): Dean Madden. Teachers and many older school students will enjoy Dance of the Tiger, a very unusual fictional story written by a scientist about his own subject. The author, Swedish/Finnish palaeontologist Björn Kurtén, did not create the literary genre ‘palaeofiction’, but he was certainly one of its better writers. Kurtén’s novel Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age takes place approximately 40, to 25, years ago, a period during which a warm spell occurred causing the ice to retreat northward leaving much of Scandinavia uncovered. During this period some scientists have hypothesized that Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons coexisted. I'll bet Kurten's Dance of the Tiger was source material for Jean Auel. While his novel doesn't have the pizazz of Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear, his is a far better scientific account of those times. If you're into palaeo-anthropological fiction, and you want to learn as much as one novel can tell you about the flora and fauna, the geographical features of what is now Scandinavia, clan culture of different tribes in the Pleistocene, then this is the book.
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