An edition of Eaters of the Dead (1976)

The 13th Warrior

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

Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Ballantine Books edition (49)

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An edition of Eaters of the Dead (1976)

The 13th Warrior

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

Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Ballantine Books edition (49)

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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

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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
278

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adaptations, fiction, vikings, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, Northmen, Beowulf Adaptations, Beowolf, Dragons, English epic poetry adaptations, Heroes, Monsters, Beowulf, Fiction, horror, Epic poetry, English (Old), Middle Ages, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, suspense, Large type books, Fiction, science fiction, general, American literature, Fiction, Vikings

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Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Al-Muqtadir

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Scandinavia, Bagdad, Volga Bulgars, Northland

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10th century, 922, Middle Ages

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Le treizième guerrier
1999, Robert Laffont
Paperback in French - Movie Tie-In Edition
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Canibais
1999-10, Publicações Europa-América
Paperback in Portuguese - 3.a edicäo; Movie tie-in
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The 13th Warrior: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922, Part 922
1999?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Movie Tie-In Edition; 1st Ballantine Books edition (49)
Cover of: Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.
1999?, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed. (41); Movie tie-in
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The 13th Warrior - The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating To His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922
1997, Arrow Books
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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A.D. 922
1993-05, Ballantine Books
Trade Paperback in English - 1st Ballantine Books trade ed. (3)
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Eaters of the Dead: The manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922
1977, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Illustrated Edition; Bantam edition (1)
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Eaters of the Dead
1977-04, Bantam Books
mass market paperback in English - Bantam Edition; Illustrated Edition
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De mistmonsters: het verslag van de Arabische diplomaat Ibn Fadlan over zijn huiveringwekkende ervaringen in 922 met de barbaarse Vikingen en de gruwelijke eters van dodenvleesʺ
1977, Elsevier
Paperback in Dutch
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Eaters of the dead: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922
1976, Knopf
Hardcover in English - Second Printing Before Publication

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction
Other Titles
Eaters of the Dead
Copyright Date
1992

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
278 p.
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23269215M
ISBN 10
0345354613
ISBN 13
9780345354617
Library Thing
6852
Goodreads
85428

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Collingswood Public Library record
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Work Description

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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The Ibn Fadlan manuscript represents the earliest known eyewitness account of Viking life and society.
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