{"product_id":"2940013755215","title":"The Eternal Lover","description":"NU OF THE NIOCENE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNu the son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his\u003cbr\u003esmooth bronzed skin, moved silently through the jungle\u003cbr\u003eprimeval. His handsome head with its shock of black hair,\u003cbr\u003eroughly cropped between sharpened stones, was high held, the\u003cbr\u003edelicate nostrils questioning each vagrant breeze for word\u003cbr\u003eof Oo, hunter of men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow his trained senses catch the familiar odor of Ta, the\u003cbr\u003egreat woolly rhinoceros, directly in his path, but Nu, the\u003cbr\u003eson of Nu, does not hunt Ta this day.  Does not the hide of\u003cbr\u003eTa's brother already hang before the entrance of Nu's cave?\u003cbr\u003eNo, today Nu hunts the gigantic cat, the fierce saber-\u003cbr\u003etoothed tiger, Oo, for Nat-ul, wondrous daughter of old Tha,\u003cbr\u003ewill mate with none but the mightiest of hunters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly so recently as the last darkness, as, beneath the\u003cbr\u003egreat, equatorial moon, the two had walked hand in hand\u003cbr\u003ebeside the restless sea she had made it quite plain to Nu,\u003cbr\u003ethe son of Nu, that not even he, son of the chief of chiefs,\u003cbr\u003ecould claim her unless there hung at the thong of his loin\u003cbr\u003ecloth the fangs of Oo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nat-ul,\" she had said to him, \"wishes her man to be greater\u003cbr\u003ethan other men. She loves Nu now better than her very life,\u003cbr\u003ebut if Love is to walk at her side during a long life Pride\u003cbr\u003eand Respect must walk with it.\"  Her slender hand  reached\u003cbr\u003eup to stroke the young giant's black hair. \"I am very proud\u003cbr\u003eof my Nu even now,\" she continued, \"for among all the young\u003cbr\u003emen of the tribe there is no greater hunter, or no mightier\u003cbr\u003efighter than Nu, the son of Nu.  Should you, single-handed,\u003cbr\u003eslay Oo before a grown man's beard has darkened your cheek\u003cbr\u003ethere will be none greater in all the world than Nat-ul's\u003cbr\u003emate, Nu, the son of Nu.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe young man was still sensible to the sound of her soft\u003cbr\u003evoice and the caress of her gentle touch upon his brow. As\u003cbr\u003ethese things had sent him speeding forth into the savage\u003cbr\u003ejungle in search of Oo while the day was still so young that\u003cbr\u003ethe night-prowling beasts of prey were yet abroad, so they\u003cbr\u003eurged him forward deeper and deeper into the dark and\u003cbr\u003etrackless mazes of the tangled forest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs he forged on the scent of Ta became stronger, until at\u003cbr\u003elast the huge, ungainly beast loomed large before Nu's eyes.\u003cbr\u003eHe was standing in a little clearing, in deep, rank jungle\u003cbr\u003egrasses and had he not been head on toward Nu he would not\u003cbr\u003ehave seen him, since even his acute hearing was far too dull\u003cbr\u003eto apprehend the noiseless tread of the cave man, moving\u003cbr\u003elightly up wind.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079660257520,"sku":"2940013755215","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013755215_p0.jpg?v=1763589841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013755215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}