Quest for Fire

( French - La Guerre du Feu - 1909 )

novel by J H Rosny ( J.-H. Rosny Aîné )

translated by Harold Talbott

Published: Pantheon Books - hardback - 1967
ISBN: none

Ballantine - paperback - 1982
ISBN: 034530067X / 9780345300676

Penguin - paperback - 1982
ISBN: 0140064346 / 9780140064346

excerpt as 'The War of Fire' contained in:
The Barbarian Swordsmen
Star - paperback - 1981
ISBN: 0352308311 / 9780352308313


synopsis
The story deals with the adventures of a trio of neanderthals searching for a source of fire for their tribe after theirs is extinguished. The story gives fairly simplistic descriptions of their encounters with a wide variety of strange individuals and creatures.

awards
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filmed
Quest for Fire ( La guerre du feu ) 1981- director, Jean-Jacques Annaud