Author: Michael Crichton Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Adventure, Science fiction
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ISBNs: 9780060891565 9780061782633 0060891564 0061782637 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): In the year 922 A.D., the refined Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, accompanies a party of Viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric north. Ibn Fadlan is appaled 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: that he has been enlisted to combat a terror that comes under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.Based on the fragments of an actual 10th-century Arabic manuscript.
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