Eaters of the dead the manuscript of ibn fadlan relating his experiences with the northmen in ad 922 is a 1976 novel by michael crichton the fourth novel under his own name and his fourteenth 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 fadlans personal account of his actual journey . Eaters of the dead the manuscript of ibn fadlan relating his experiences with the northmen in ad 922 charnwood library crichton michael isbn 9780708990636 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Get this from a library eaters of the dead the manuscript of ibn fadlan relating his experiences with the northmen in ad 922 ahmad ibn fadlan michael crichton. Eaters of the dead the manuscript of ibn fadlan relating to his experiences with the northmen in ad 922 in the year ad 911 a refined arab courtier representative of the powerful caliph of baghdad encounters a party of viking warriors on their journey to the barbaric north he is appalled by viking customs the wanton sexuality of