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Eaters Of The Dead
Michael Crichton

Eaters Of The Dead

The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922

Ballantine Books (Sep 12, 1991)
9780345354617
| Paperback
211 pages | 107 x 173 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3553.R48 .E25 1993
LC Control No. 2014658524

Genre

  • Fantasy Fiction
  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction

Plot

Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Films, starring Antonio Banderas. In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric North. He is appalled by Viking customs--the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.