Winds Across Beringia
Nearly 15,000 years ago, a daring young mammoth hunter named Harjo sets out on a life-changing journey across the now inundated ancient land bridge that once connected Alaska and Siberia called Beringia. He is bound for the land of the sea mammal hunting people on the coast of the Bering Sea. There, he encounters a beautiful, mysterious servant girl named Onna, the likes that no one had ever seen before or imagined existed. She was taken captive from an unknown land far to the west, across the great massive glaciers that all believed were impassable.
Together, they began an incredible adventure to return to Harjo's people and his river valley homeland within interior Beringia. Their saga tells the story of their life-long relationship through many wondrous escapades, harsh, desperate struggles, and an intimate romance within the backdrop of the lost land of Beringia—a wondrous world that was once bursting with breathtaking sights and sounds and teeming with astonishing exotic animals while providing an unforgiving perilous environment to those who ventured forth.
Harjo's people, the mammoth hunters, and other prehistoric inhabitants of Beringia are destined to be the ancient ancestors of all Native people of North and South America.
Book Summary & Review
"Fans of Ice Age prehistoric fiction settings ala Jean Auel's 'Earth's Children' series will relish the setting and events in Winds Across Beringia, which is set in the last Ice Age on a narrow channel connecting Alaska with Siberia."
--Midwest Book Review
Book Excerpts
Chapter 1
--Page 6 Harjo raised his spear straight up, moving only his hands and arms so that the spear point was now arm's lengths above his head as he grasped the shaft near the end. The mammoth stopped rubbing and began to move on. Now was his opportunity—now!
Chapter 9
--Page 135 Onna quickly looked up at Harjo. Her expression showed such intensity. "You no take I back." "I no take you back," repeated Harjo. "You will not go back. You are free.
Chapter 14
--222 Then, the lion opened his jaws, showed its deadly white fangs, and made a loud, low hissing sound. Onna expected it to growl, but it did not, it hissed, and she could see the pure terror in its bloodcurdling face. Then suddenly, in a deadly, silent flash of white, it charged.
Chapter 39
--604 "You are wrong—dead wrong. One man will come for me, the man who loves me. He is a strong, fierce warrior—he is brother to the wind. He flies across the tops of the grass like a spirit of vengeance. You will not hear him—you will not see him. But for an instant, you will take one last breath as you feel the point of his spear when it touches your heart.