Eaters Of The Dead

	Author	Michael Crichton
	Country	United States
	Language	English
	Genre	Fantasy , Historical Novel Adventure
	Publisher	Alfred A Knopf (US 1976) & Jonathan Cape (UK 1976)
	Release Date	March 1976 (USA) & August 1976 (UK)
	Pages	288 p (US hardback edition) & 192 p (UK hardback edition)
	Isbn	ISBN 0394494008 (US hardback edition) & ISBN 0224013068 (UK hardback edition)

''Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences With the Northmen in A.D. 922'' is a 1976 Novel by Michael Crichton .

PLOT INTRODUCTION

Crichton drew upon ambassador Ibn Fadlan 's account of his journeys among the Early Russians , and posits the origin of the Beowulf epic as a conflict between Viking s and a small Relict Neanderthal population.

FILM OR TV ADAPTATIONS

The novel was adapted into film as '' The 13th Warrior '', directed by John McTiernan , with Antonio Banderas as Ibn Fadlan. Crichton writes that he was "quite pleased" with the film, though it earned mixed reviews and performed rather poorly at the Box Office , earning about $ 32 million; the film's budget was over $80 million.

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