Shipwrecked in the wild Paleolithic with their modern tools and weapons turning to dust, time travelers from the year 2233 go native to survive.

The scientific explorers are stranded on a European continent that is a sea of green, a sensory overload of natural beauty. Home to huge herds of bison, antelope, deer, outsized Mega-fauna and forests without end, it is a land unspoiled.

There is also danger at every turn.

Matthew Thayer's 30,000 B.C. Chronicles book series begins with Bordeaux, an action tale of love and exploration in a prehistoric world dominated by mammoth and wolf pack. With stirring imagination and an eye for colorful detail, Thayer takes readers back to hear the roar of cave bears and feel the ground shake as hairy rhino charge past.

Strong women, brave men, despicable villains, the characters rise to meet many challenges. The memories they share of home and the scarred Earth they left behind paint an intriguing picture of mankind's future.

With most of their modern equipment dissolving into powder, the scientific explorers join Cro-Magnon clans to survive. Life with the nomads teaches that man's basic needs, his desire for companionship and comfort, the fear of death, and the eternal question of "what comes after death?" transcend time.

Troubles begin when one of the Italian crewmembers introduces advanced warfare and his warped brand of religion to his Cro-Magnon clan. The empire builder starts a race across the continent as his companions struggle to halt a ministry of domination that could alter the course of humanity.