The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs greatly inflated the beast's proportions for dramati effect. The ivory slashers are fully eighteen-inches long.

The body as as huge as a full-grown bull, gorgeously striped in brilliant gold and glossy black. He represents essentially the same species as the giant tarags of Pellucidar. The great saber-tooth tiger, whom Nu slays and beheads for Nat-ul. There exists on an island a race of hairy beings called 'tree-people', with pig-eyes and worlf-fangs, which may be a relic populartion of Homo Erectus. The human inhabitants seem to be all white Cro-Magons, though with an inhanced ability for swinging through the trees. ERB mentions, 'from the distant sea and swamp came the hissing of saurian and amphibian.' Surviving dinosaurs may lurk in the swamp, and labyrinthodont amphibians, like Pellucidar's sithic, may lurk there as well. Ice-Age fauna seems the most common, with a few Mesozoic holdovers, mainly marine and flying saurians. Niocence Africa very much resembles Pellucidar, and many of the same species predominate. or Joe Kubert's Tor, where the Age of Reptiles has over lapped into the dawning ages of Man, and beasts of differnet prehistoric ages intermingle.

If anything, it takes place in a mythical prehistory similar to One Million B. While it supposedly takes place in Africa, it is not the Africa of actual history. This the one notable 'prehistoric' novel set not in a Lost World locale, but in the ancient past. Later, Custer expereinces life in the Niocence as Nat-ul, and Nu rescues her many more times. He successfully slays the beasts after a battle royal, but ends end gettig thrust back into present-day Africa where he meets with Victoria Custer, who is Nat-ul's modenr incarnation. Nu seeks the head of the great sabertooth tiger Oo, much as the primitives of Pellucidar seek the head of a tarag to awin the mate of their choice. It's hero was Nu, a Cro-Magnon warrior whose beloved was Nat-ul. Cool, ain't it? There's a number of other ERB graphic novels due out this year, including At the Earth's Core and Tarzan At the Earth's Core, in celebration of ERB's 100th aniversary.Įdgar Rice Burroughs invented the fictonal Niocene Age for his novel the Eternal Lover, subsequently retitled The Eternal Savage. NOTE: The B and W artwork on this page is by Steve Gordon for the upcoming graphic novel by Martin Powell and Steve Gordon, based on the Burroughs noevle The Eternal savage.

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs