The story of Ab : a tale of the time of the cave man / Stanley Waterloo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterloo, Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Fiction.

Prehistoric peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1905.

Summary:

This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well. Once only does the writer depart from accepted theories of scientific research. After an at least long-continued study of existing evidence and information relating to the Stone Ages, the conviction grew upon him that the mysterious gap supposed by scientific teachers to divide Paleolithic from Neolithic man never really existed...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I The Babe in the Woods; Chapter II Man and Hyena; Chapter III A Family Dinner; Chapter IV Ab and Oak; Chapter V A Great Enterprise; Chapter VI A Dangerous Visitor; Chapter VII The Unexpected Happens; Chapter VIII Sabre-Tooth and Rhinoceros; Chapter IX Domestic Matters; Chapter X Old Mok, the Mentor; Chapter XI Doings at Home; Chapter XII Old Mok's Tales; Chapter XIII Ab's Great Discovery; Chapter XIV A Lesson in Swimming; Chapter XV The Mammoth at Bay; Chapter XVI The Feast of the Mammoth; Chapter XVII The Comrades; Chapter XVIII Love and Death

Chapter XIX A Race with DreadChapter XX The Fire Country; Chapter XXI The Wooing of Lightfoot; Chapter XXII The Honeymoon; Chapter XXIII More of the Honeymoon; Chapter XXIV The Fire Country Again; Chapter XXV A Great Step Forward; Chapter XXVI Facing the Raider; Chapter XXVII Little Mok; Chapter XXVIII The Battle of the Barriers; Chapter XXIX Old Hilltop's Last Struggle; Chapter XXX Our Very Great Grandfather

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77556-856-3

OCLC:

602023949