audio cassette
English language
Published March 24, 1998 by Random House Audio.
With an introduction and running commentary read by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton: Eaters of the Dead (AudiobookFormat, 1998, Random House Audio)
audio cassette
English language
Published March 24, 1998 by Random House Audio.
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall. The story is about a 10th-century Muslim Arab who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement.
Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources. The first three chapters are a retelling of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's personal account of his actual journey north and his experiences with and observations of Varangians. The remainder is a retelling of Beowulf.
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