Resumen
Resumen de El Salvaje Eterno
Para quién es
Readers who love fast adventure, wild beasts and brave heroes, and who enjoy a love story told on a grand scale. It suits fans of Tarzan and anyone curious about imagined Stone Age life.
De qué trata este libro
The Eternal Savage is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books, who died in 1950. It joins two lives set a hundred thousand years apart. One belongs to Nu, a young cave man of a hot, steaming prehistoric world. The other belongs to Victoria Custer, a modern American woman on a hunting trip in equatorial Africa.
Burroughs tells it in a friendly voice, as a guest at the Greystoke ranch who heard the tale first hand. Lord Greystoke, once Tarzan of the Apes, stands in the background as host and tracker. The foreground belongs to a woman who has dreamed of the same bronzed, black-haired giant since girlhood, and to a man who has no idea how long he has been gone from his own people.
You get a chase across Africa, with Arab slave raiders, a faithful wolfhound and a lion in a rose garden. You also get a Stone Age world full of saber-toothed tigers, boat builders, flying reptiles and man-apes. The question that drives it all is simple and old: can love cross an impossible gap of time? Let us begin with the hunter, and with the beast he goes out to kill.
En este resumen
- 1A hunter goes after the saber-toothed tigerFree
- 2A woman haunted by a dream lover
- 3A sleeper wakes in a strange small world
- 4A lion in the garden and a wounded rescuer
- 5Slave raiders, a prisoner and a long pursuit
- 6A rescue and the gulf of a hundred thousand years
- 7The tribe by the Restless Sea and a stolen bride
- 8Boat builders, a flying reptile and the isles of mystery
- 9The stake, an unlikely rescuer and a mistaken kiss
- 10What the story is about and how it is told
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A hunter goes after the saber-toothed tiger
The book opens in a world a hundred thousand years gone. Nu, son of Nu, moves through the jungle of the Niocene, a young cave man with bronzed skin and black hair cropped with sharpened stones. His father is chief of his tribe. He carries a stone-tipped spear, a hatchet and a knife, and he is hunting Oo, the saber-toothed tiger that kills men and mammoths.
His reason is Nat-ul, daughter of old Tha. The night before, beside the restless sea under a great equatorial moon, she told him she would mate only with the mightiest hunter. Love, she said, must have pride and respect walking beside it. So the fangs of Oo must hang from his loincloth before she will be his. Nu hears her soft voice in his head as he goes.
The road to the lair shows his skill. Ta, the woolly rhinoceros, charges him in a clearing, and Nu runs up a tree fern and leaps from frond to frond. The beast smashes into the trunk and brings the whole tree down. Then Nu passes through the land of the ape-people, who growl and show their tusks. Man and apes keep an armed truce, and they share many words, so he asks them for news of Oo.
At the volcanic cliffs he finds a cave ringed by enormous bones. Oo strolls out, as big as a bull, striped black on yellow, with fangs eighteen inches long. Nu stuns the tiger in midleap with a thrown hatchet and drives his spear in behind the shoulder. The great cat bends the shaft, snaps it, and drives the point into its own heart as it springs. Nu cuts off the head, dances and shouts his victory cry.
The cry has barely died when the sun dims, the ground shakes and the beasts scatter in panic. Nu runs into Oo's cave with his trophy. The cliff collapses, the entrance seals, and he loses consciousness in the dark. One short sentence follows and sets up the whole book: that was a hundred thousand years ago.
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Who’s who
- Victoria Custer
- Victoria Custer is a bold modern woman who feels a mysterious bond with Nu across the ages.
- Nu
- Nu is a Stone Age hunter whose connection with Victoria Custer bridges their very different worlds.
- Nat-ul
- Nat-ul is a woman of Nu's own tribe and time whose place in his life creates romantic tension.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 51,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 3 h 25 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 12 other languages
Questions about El Salvaje Eterno
What is The Eternal Savage about?
It tells of Nu, a Stone Age hunter who sleeps for a hundred thousand years and wakes in modern Africa, and of Victoria Custer, a woman who has dreamed of him. It also follows Nu and Nat-ul in their own prehistoric world.
Is Tarzan in The Eternal Savage?
Tarzan appears under the name Lord Greystoke, the Englishman whose African estate hosts the Custers. He helps track a mysterious hunter and lead a rescue party, but the story belongs to Nu, Nat-ul and Victoria.
Who are Nu and Nat-ul?
Nu, son of Nu, is a cave man and chief's son. Nat-ul is the daughter of Tha, a woman of his tribe who has promised to mate with the mightiest hunter. Victoria Custer dreams of them both.
Is The Eternal Savage a true story?
No. It is an imaginative adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Its Stone Age world, with mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and flying reptiles, is invented, and it mixes prehistoric adventure with a modern African setting.
Is The Eternal Savage easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the action is clear and fast. Short chapters, vivid fights, chases and cliffhangers keep the pages turning, and the narrator speaks plainly and directly to the reader.