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30,000 B.C. Chronicles #3
Gibraltar
This third installment of the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles is a compilation of journal entries and voice transmissions created by four survivors of a scientific expedition sent back 32,371 years in time. Gibraltar picks up the narratives roughly 18 months after The Team’s stealth trimaran splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean during a moist pause in a glacial age.
After making landfall along the coast of what is now France, the highly trained crew of 97 was decimated to six within two weeks and whittled to four within a year. Cast headlong into a prehistoric world without support or modern tools and weapons, the survivors quickly ingratiated themselves within the local population of Early Modern Humans, Cro-Magnon.
In this installment, our four modern explorers have embarked for the ice fields of the far north. Their native mentor, the storyteller Gray Beard, has offered proof of his interaction with previous time explorers. His walrus tusk carving depicts the Einstein IV, a new-generation timeship. The storyteller claims the rescuers arrived at least 35 years early and eventually became shipwrecked on a riverbank along a northern coast.
To keep peace within their adopted Green Turtle clan, the four surviving Team members have split forces to travel by two very disparate routes. American Captain Juniper Jones and Italian Corporal Salvatore Bolzano journey overland, traveling north with the clan on a route that will take them through what is now France. Chief Botanist Maria Duarte and recreation specialist Paul Kaikane have committed themselves to an ambitious voyage around the Iberian Peninsula. The American couple intends to sail 3,500 miles, from Provence, through the Straights of Gibraltar to a rendezvous point on the Atlantic coast of Brittany.
After making landfall along the coast of what is now France, the highly trained crew of 97 was decimated to six within two weeks and whittled to four within a year. Cast headlong into a prehistoric world without support or modern tools and weapons, the survivors quickly ingratiated themselves within the local population of Early Modern Humans, Cro-Magnon.
In this installment, our four modern explorers have embarked for the ice fields of the far north. Their native mentor, the storyteller Gray Beard, has offered proof of his interaction with previous time explorers. His walrus tusk carving depicts the Einstein IV, a new-generation timeship. The storyteller claims the rescuers arrived at least 35 years early and eventually became shipwrecked on a riverbank along a northern coast.
To keep peace within their adopted Green Turtle clan, the four surviving Team members have split forces to travel by two very disparate routes. American Captain Juniper Jones and Italian Corporal Salvatore Bolzano journey overland, traveling north with the clan on a route that will take them through what is now France. Chief Botanist Maria Duarte and recreation specialist Paul Kaikane have committed themselves to an ambitious voyage around the Iberian Peninsula. The American couple intends to sail 3,500 miles, from Provence, through the Straights of Gibraltar to a rendezvous point on the Atlantic coast of Brittany.
- GenresTime Travel
279 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 13, 2013
About the author
Matthew Thayer
12 books12 followersMatthew Thayer has won more than 75 state and national awards for his writing and photography. He lives on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where he is a staff photojournalist for the local newspaper. Matthew was born in Erie, PA and graduated from Kent State University. Along with writing and photography, his interests include ocean kayaking, coaching soccer, public speaking, traveling the world with wife Kelly and enjoying the great outdoors with their adult children.
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January 4, 2021
I am really into these books! I love the detail the author puts into describing the scenery and his speculation of how people lived in 32,000 B.C.
After you read the first one, it becomes easier to read the weird journals and keep up with who is talking.
After you read the first one, it becomes easier to read the weird journals and keep up with who is talking.
Did Not Finish
September 14, 2020DNF
January 11, 2021
Human vices bloom in 32,000 BC
Could you leave the world you know...friends, family, security...to foster increased knowledge of humanoids' different ways of living 32,000 years the past. What would possess a modern human to live out their lives so long ago?
Could you leave the world you know...friends, family, security...to foster increased knowledge of humanoids' different ways of living 32,000 years the past. What would possess a modern human to live out their lives so long ago?
May 16, 2021
A bit far out for my interest. I find much of it hard to believe.
Even though I found much of it hard to believe I still enjoyed the read. Especially when Duarte survived and Paul will make it.
Even though I found much of it hard to believe I still enjoyed the read. Especially when Duarte survived and Paul will make it.
November 19, 2019
Absolutely 5 star! Phenomenal series of books. The only one that was marked down to 4 star was the first one, it took a while to get past one part of the plot that did not interest me - but all of the books are superbly written.
March 4, 2020
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November 11, 2020
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Blah blah blah blah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah Mahwah blah blah blah blah wah
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Ow ooh wooo!
April 6, 2021
Love this series! I can’t find fault with this story and the writing. So enjoyable.
September 16, 2021
Slow
The plot has thickened. Dragging on and on. People are coming from no where to attack. The heroes have to make it back to the future.
The plot has thickened. Dragging on and on. People are coming from no where to attack. The heroes have to make it back to the future.
January 20, 2025
World building
This book was kinda low on plot, but was great in helping to establish the lore of the world the crew left behind and more understanding of the one they're in.
This book was kinda low on plot, but was great in helping to establish the lore of the world the crew left behind and more understanding of the one they're in.
October 18, 2020
Same review as the first two. Great with characters and plot. Am put off by what seems wrong with flora, fauna, and human behavior and interactions. If this was set in some other planet I'd have no problems, but it's supposed to be placed in our own past and I have a hard time with his setting. Too many Cro-magnons, too much diversity in social behavior. Doesn't ring true.
January 7, 2016
Even better than book one and two
Great storyteller, able to paint a detailed picture in your mind while keeping the story moving forward. Buying book four right now :)
Great storyteller, able to paint a detailed picture in your mind while keeping the story moving forward. Buying book four right now :)
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