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The Eternal Savage Return to the Stone Age

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 t...

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The book, which served as the full audiobook for this episode, detailed the adventures of Nu, son of Nu, a primitive man seeking to slay a sabre-tooth tiger to win the hand of Nat Ull. Later, it chronicled the modern woman Victoria Custer finding herself inexplicably drawn to this ancient world and the savage man, leading to her being abducted by Arab slave traders before being rescued by Nu.

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Here is Nu, son of Nu, seeking to test his mettle against the terrible fangs of the ferocious saber-tooth tiger. Here is Victoria Custer, guest of Tarzan, seeking vacation and adventure and finding mo...

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The book, which served as the full audiobook for this episode, detailed the adventures of Nu, son of Nu, a primitive man seeking to slay a sabre-tooth tiger to win the hand of Nat Ull. Later, it chronicled the modern woman Victoria Custer finding herself inexplicably drawn to this ancient world and the savage man, leading to her being abducted by Arab slave traders before being rescued by Nu.

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Here is Nu, son of Nu, seeking to test his mettle against the terrible fangs of the ferocious saber-tooth tiger. Here is Victoria Custer, guest of Tarzan, seeking vacation and adventure and finding more than she could ever have dreamed of.

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.

Nat Ull, she had said to him, wishes her man to be greater than other men.

The creature's great bulk and awkward uncouth lines belied his speed, for he tore down upon New with all the swiftness of a thoroughbred, and had not the brain and muscle of the troglodyte been fitted by heritage and training to the successful meeting of such emergencies there would be no tale to tell today of New of the niocene.

For a hundred thousand years he had lain hermetically sealed in his rocky tomb as toads remain in suspended animation for similar periods of time.

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