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The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs and the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanline...

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Main Author: Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
Other Authors: Vance, Simon (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, [2015]
Edition:Unabridged.
Series:Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Subjects:
Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, > active 922 > Fiction.
Northmen > Fiction.
Vikings > Fiction.
Monsters > Fiction.
Middle Ages > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Sound recordings.
Fantasy fiction.
Suspense fiction > Sound recording.
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Summary:The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs and the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness and their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the courtier learns the horrifying and inescapable truth: he has been enlisted by these savage, inscrutable warriors to help combat a terror that plagues them, a monstrosity that emerges under cover of night to slaughter the Vikings and devour their flesh.
Item Description:Title from container.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:5 sound discs (5 hr., 22 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781501216749
1501216740
Author Notes:John Michael Crichton, known as Michael Crichton, was born on October 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote novels while attending Harvard University and Harvard Medical School to help pay the tuition. One of these, The Andromeda Strain, which was published in 1969, became a bestseller. After graduating summa cum laude, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in California before becoming a full-time writer and film director.

His carefully researched novels included Eaters of the Dead, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, and Micro. He also wrote non-fiction works including Five Patients: The Hospital Explained, Jasper Johns, and Travels. In the late 1960s, he also wrote under the pen names Jeffrey Hudson and John Lange. He has received several awards including Writer of the Year in 1970 from the Association of American Medical Writers and two Edgar Awards in 1968 and in 1979.

Many of his novels have been made into highly successful films, six of which he directed. He was also the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series ER. In addition to his writing and directorial success, his expertise in information science enabled him to run a software company and develop a computer game. He died of cancer on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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