Eaters of the dead : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 / Michael Crichton.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harper, [2009].Description: 289 p. ; 19 cmISBN:- 0061782637
- 9780061782633
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Crichton, Michael | Available | 33111005666017 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, an epic tale of unspeakable horror
The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs--the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: he has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them--a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh . . .
"Crichton knows how to craft a tale, one that keeps the reader turning the pages."--Houston Chronicle
"Michael Crichton is one of our most gifted popular novelists. A true son of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. . . . A master of plausible and frightening scenarios. . . . He is a connoisseur of catastrophe."--Los Angeles Times
"Previously published by Ballantine Books under the movie title of, The 13th Warrior"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243).
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.