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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Eaters of the dead</title>
    <subTitle>the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Crichton, Michael</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1942-2008</namePart>
    <role>
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  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
  <genre authority="gsafd">Historical fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="gsafd">Fantasy fiction.</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">nyu</placeTerm>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Harper</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>289 p. ; 19 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings-- but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Michael Crichton</note>
  <note>"Previously published by Ballantine Books under the movie title of, The 13th Warrior"--T.p. verso</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243)</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ibn Fadl¯an, Ahmad</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">fl. 922</namePart>
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    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Beowulf</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <topic>Adaptations</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Epic poetry, English (Old)</topic>
    <topic>Adaptations</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Middle Ages</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Northmen</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Vikings</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS3553.R48 E25 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780061782633</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0061782637</identifier>
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