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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 by Michael Crichton - 1st Edition - 1976 - from Idler Fine Books and Biblio.com

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

by Crichton, Michael

Condition: Fine/Near Fine

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 First printing of the stated first edition. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket, red top-edge. Light shelf wear to bottom edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with minimal shelf wear, light age-toning to inside flaps, and faint offsetting to back cover, else fine.

Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaption of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton. The story is about a 10th-century Muslim who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement. Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources.

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