Eaters of the Dead
Subtitle: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed. (41); Movie tie-in
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1999?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780345354617
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, -- fl. 922 -- Fiction; Vikings -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the year A.D. 922, a refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, 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...
--back cover
Notes: "A factual note on Eaters of the dead copyright 1992 by Michael Crichton"T.p. verso.