Dau-Laki is the first of a returning hunting party to discover that a catastrophe has befallen his tribe. He formulates a plan that just might save them all from annihilation but in doing so he stakes a claim to being one of the tribe's new leaders, incurring deadly jealousies and beginning a chain of events which will lead his people to one of the great discoveries of all time. 'The New Land' reads like a fantasy saga; there are strange and deadly beasts, a quest, and the practise of magic, but all details are in accordance with the best archaeological and paleontological research.