Almost "verily," the amazing Michael Crichton has presented the
manuscript (922 A.D.) of an Arab, Ibn Fadlan, emissary of a Caliph
who recorded his three-years among the Northmen with the "tone of a
tax auditor, not a bard, an anthropologist, not a dramatist." It is
of course much livelier than that and accompanied with assorted
annotations and scholarly paraphernalia (mostly for real) which
thin the lines between truth and fabrication to mere wisps of
conjecture rising from those dread black mists filled with the
eaters of the dead. Now it would appear that Ibn Fadlan, having met
some Northmen near the Volga, was chosen to make up the company of
thirteen - one to be an outlander - which was to return home with
its leader Buliwyf to defeat the hairy fiends who fed off humans.
Ibn Fadlan's account, which ends in the cave where the legendary
Buliwyf will meet his death while meting out the same to the mother
of the creatures, is full of inventive incidentals - be it only the
stomach-boggling description of their ablutions or their
spectacular funerary practices. Minor Crichton but verily, verily a
diverting send-up which you'll read faster than you can say qurtaq.
(Kirkus Reviews)
In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Baghdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the king of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandinavia and save his countrymen and family from the monsters of the mist.
Join them on their stunning adventure to the mysterious land where the day's length does not equal the night's...where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of colour.....where Buliwyf and his band of brothers must lock in mortal combat with the dark, hairy brutes who threaten to empty the land…
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