The World is Our Own
Fire-Hunter
By Jim Kjelgaard
19 Jan, 2020
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
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Jim Kjelgaard’s 1951 Fire-Hunter is a prehistoric adventure.
Hawk is his tribe’s master spear-maker. He doesn’t hunt; that’s dangerous and his skills are too valuable to lose. So sayeth the tribe. They’re a conservative bunch. They live on the edge of survival and cling to the old, tried-and-true methods.
Hawk, however, is an innovator. He sees an exciting new way to cast spears and cannot resist testing it. The new method works until it fails spectacularly, leaving a hunter dead on a woolly rhino’s horn.
The tribe expels Hawk and wanders off in their nomadic way.