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What if the love that haunts you belongs to a world before cities?
Victoria Custer feels out of place in her own time. Bold and restless, she prefers open country to drawing rooms. In The Eternal Savage, Edgar Rice Burroughs gives her a strange bond with a man from the Stone Age—and a longing that reaches far beyond the world she knows.
That man is Nu, an honorable hunter whose strength and speed face constant tests from beasts and rival tribes. Nat-ul, a woman of his own age and tribe, adds tension to his story. Across these distant worlds, Burroughs joins prehistoric danger with a sweeping question: can love survive time itself?
What you’ll discover
- A restless heroine Meet Victoria Custer, whose pull toward an older world makes ordinary life feel too narrow.
- A Stone Age hunter Follow Nu through a world where spear, club, and cunning stand between life and death.
- Danger at every turn Enter a prehistoric landscape of great beasts, sudden ambushes, and desperate chases.
- Love beyond time Explore a romance built around the possibility that love can outlast the ages.
- Adventure before explanation Enjoy a tale that puts action and feeling ahead of detailed scientific explanation.
Who will love it
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.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A hunter goes after the saber-toothed tiger
- A woman haunted by a dream lover
- A sleeper wakes in a strange small world
- A lion in the garden and a wounded rescuer
- Slave raiders, a prisoner and a long pursuit
- A rescue and the gulf of a hundred thousand years
- The tribe by the Restless Sea and a stolen bride
- Boat builders, a flying reptile and the isles of mystery
- The stake, an unlikely rescuer and a mistaken kiss
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Nu, son of NuA young cave man and son of the chief, he hunts the saber-toothed tiger to win his mate and wakes in a world a hundred thousand years later.
- Nat-ulDaughter of Tha and the woman Nu loves, brave and quick with a knife, she will mate only with the mightiest hunter.
- Victoria CusterA Nebraska woman hunting in Africa, fearless with a rifle but terrified of earthquakes, she is haunted by dreams of a black-haired giant.
- Barney CusterVictoria's loyal brother, he keeps her secrets, protects the strange hunter from harm and tries to teach him English.
- William CurtissA rich suitor who follows Victoria to Africa, he hates the savage stranger and wants him dead.
- TerkozA wolfhound owned by the Greystokes, he tracks Victoria, guards Nu and has a keen sense of whom to trust.
- TurA tall Boat Builder who desires Nat-ul and chases her across the sea, he will stop at nothing to possess her.
- GronTur's mate, scorned and bitter, she saves Nu from the stake and comes to love him, though he loves another.
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Il selvaggio eterno
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1915
A Stone Age hunter wakes after a hundred thousand years and tracks the woman of his dreams across Africa.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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