title: The Eternal Savage: Nu of the Neocene (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
description: Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking a saber-toothed tiger. Awakening thousands of years later on Tarzans estate in Africa, he gives his heart to Victoria Custer of Nebraska, a visitor to the estate, who is the reincarnation of Nus Stone Age love, Nat-ul. But other men treacherously compete for the love of Victoria in modern Africa and for the heart of Nat-ul in the distant past. Set in both a terrifyingly dangerous primeval setting and the beloved world of Tarzan, The Eternal Savage movingly reveals whether eternal love is strong enough to triumph over undying adversity.
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  # The Eternal Savage
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### NU OF THE NIOCENE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  NU, THE son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth bronzed skin,
  moved silently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head with its shock
  of black hair, roughly cropped between sharpened stones, was high held, the
  delicate nostrils questioning each vagrant breeze for word of Oo, hunter of
  men.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Now his trained senses catch the familiar odor of Ta, the great woolly
  rhinoceros, directly in his path, but Nu, the son of Nu, does not hunt Ta this
  day. Does not the hide of Ta's brother already hang before the entrance of
  Nu's cave? No, today Nu hunts the gigantic cat, the fierce saber-toothed
  tiger, Oo, for Nat-ul, wondrous daughter of old Tha, will mate with none but
  the mightiest of hunters.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Only so recently as the last darkness, as, beneath the great, equatorial moon,
  the two had walk