Gavin Hickey

The New Land Gavin Hickey

'The New Land' is an action-packed tale about one of the great achievements of mankind, but it is also the story of a tribe's struggle for survival within a savage world and one man's struggle with his own people. Dau-Laki is the first of a returning hunting party to discover that a catastrophe has befallen his tribe. As he runs back to inform the hunting pack, he formulates a plan that just might save them all from annihilation but in so doing he stakes a claim to being one of the tribe's new leaders and incurs deadly jealousies. Torn between love and loyalty, Dau-Laki becomes an integral player in a chain of events which will eventually lead to one of the greatest discoveries of pre-history. 'The New Land' reads like a fantasy epic; there are strange and deadly beasts, a quest and the use of magic, but all events in this book are in accordance with what is currently known from the best archaeological research. 'The New Land' reveals to its readers the wonders and trials of a little-known period of human pre-history, but it is first and foremost a human story about ambition, infatuation and survival.