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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall.
The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on Michael Crichton's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, [5] which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings. It stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, as well as Diane Venora and Omar Sharif.
Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Baghdādī) was a 10th-century traveler from Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, [a] famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir of Baghdad, to the king of the Volga Bulgars ...
Microsoft PowerPoint - Book of the Dead for Amenhotep copied characters.pptx: Author: Tammy: Conversion program: Microsoft: Print To PDF: Encrypted: no: Page size: 792 x 612 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.7
A Case of Need is a medical thriller/mystery novel written by Michael Crichton, his fourth novel and the only under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson.It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson DSO (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947) was a British Army officer, hunter, and author best known for his book The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details Patterson's experiences during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in the East Africa Protectorate from 1898 to 1899.
The House of the Dead was the only work by Dostoevsky that Leo Tolstoy revered. [8] He saw it as exalted religious art, inspired by deep faith and love of humanity. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Turgenev , who was also not enamored of Dostoevsky's larger scale fiction (particularly Demons and Crime and Punishment ), described the bath-house scene from House of ...
Night of the Living Dead trailer highlighting the film's gore and violence. Night of the Living Dead premiered on October 1, 1968, at the Fulton Theater in Pittsburgh. [21] Nationally, it was a Saturday afternoon matinée—typical for horror films at the time—and attracted the usual horror film audience of mainly pre-teens and adolescents.