Mammoth Trilogy · Book 2

Longtusk

by Stephen Baxter

Published
1 December 1999
Pages
356
ISBN-13
9781857987393
Type
novel

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Cover of Longtusk

About this book

At 356 pages, Longtusk is the longest of the three books, published the same year as Silverhair but shifting to a mammoth living generations earlier, at the end of the last Ice Age.

Its place in Mammoth Trilogy

Longtusk is book 2 in the Mammoth Trilogy series. It follows Silverhair. It is followed by Icebones. See the full Mammoth Trilogy reading order.

The Mammoth Trilogy follows Silverhair, a young female woolly mammoth living on a remote Arctic island where her herd is one of the last mammoth populations left on Earth -- and, unknown to the mammoths themselves, the deliberate subject of a secretive human genetic conservation project. When poachers slaughter part of her family, Silverhair sets out with two companions on a journey that widens across the trilogy into an exploration of mammoth history and myth, encounters with other surviving megafauna, and…

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