SOLVED. Prehistoric Green Corridor across the Bering Strait - turned out to be 2 books [s]

[Fran]

I thought this was a Robert Silverberg book but apparently it is not. I certainly can't find it. I think it was a fiction story based on understanding of the era and extrapolation of what may have taken place during that time. I think it was

It was a story about the change from prehistoric man to man and the trek across the green corridor between glaciers across what would eventually become the Bering Strait.

The man was shunned and attacked by the more prehistoric men of the day because he was different.

He (name started with a T but I can't remember it), and his woman and their son or maybe he was an adopted son went to find this glacial corridor that was only open for short time periodically.

There was great detail in the book of their lives during this ancient time of living on the ice in the ice age; right down to how they made things, what they made them from, how they likely lived - both the emerging man and the more prehistoric men of the day, the animals from that era near the end of the ice age, and more.

I read it from the school library when I was in middle school in the mid 60s.

It had a paper jacket cover on the book with a picture of the main two characters, a man and a woman in their animal skin/fur clothes looking out over the green tundra land in the corridor with the glaciers to either side.

[Antonomasia]

There are loads of more recent novels (from the 80's and after) set around that time, though the list of novels set in prehistory on Wikipedia includes plenty of earlier ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...
None of them I've looked at mentions Beringia though.

[Fran]

Thank you Antonomasia!

One of the titles at the end of that list, put me onto it! It said First North Americans and I looked there but then it reminded me of the Series it was part of. First Americans.

Corridor of Storms and I just found it here on goodreads!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

Thank you!

Now I can read the rest of the series

[Antonomasia]

Oh, wow, that was quick! So it turns out to be a more recent book :)
I was about to post this other long list: http://www.trussel.com/prehist/prehis... - will just leave it here in case anyone's interested.

[Fran]

Actually, I think it was out before 1988. My children were already born then and I read it years earlier as a middle school or at most a young teen.

I will have to look into that.

[Fran]

Nope, it was 1988. I must have remembered it wrong as to when/where I got the book.

[Fran]

Now I will have to try to remember what book it was that I actually got from the school library when I was in middle school or as an early teen that I thought was by Robert Silverberg...

[Antonomasia]

If it was prehistoric, maybe it will be in the very long list in the other link - there are loads of them written in the 60's or earlier.

[Fran]

Now that I know it was done laster, this Robert Silverberg book may have been the one I was confusing with it:

Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg
Published February 28th 1988 by Tor Books (first published 1964)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44...

Yes, this was it. Not sure how I got it cross-wired in my brain over time. Totally different books.

[Cheryl]

Time of the Great Freeze
Corridor of Storms

I moved this to SOLVED - congratulations!

[Fran]

Thanks Cheryl!!

Great to finally find them both as ones I have read but got them cross linked somehow! LOL!