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Spirit Walker, second in Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series released

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 04 October 2005  Page Views: 2988

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Following the release of Spirit Walker, the second book in her bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, Michelle Paver talks to Michelle Pauli of the Guardian about the challenges of creating a Paleolithic world, her deep affection for her characters, and what seal blubber really tastes like



There can't be many writers who can claim inspiration for a bestselling novel from a close encounter with a bear, but Michelle Paver clearly relishes her near-death experience for the unusual source material it provided.
She was hiking on her own in woods in southern California when she met the black bear and her two cubs. "It was terrifying," Paver assures me when we meet up in a cafe in Wimbledon. "She was very nervous and edgy and she looked like she was about to go up on her hind legs. She was so powerful I knew that she wouldn't even have needed to attack me; one swat of her paw and she'd have snapped my neck." Paver sidestepped the bear very slowly, singing to calm her, and emerged unscathed, but the experience left a lasting impression. "It felt incredibly ancient, as if I were back in time," she remembers. "The bear didn't care anything about me, she didn't know anything about me - I had to use the same kind of skills a stone age person would have used much better than me."

More: The Guardian, and here is the book at Amazon: Spirit Walker.
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