Eaters of the Dead

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1992

An ambassador of the tenth-century Caliph of Bagdad is carried off by the Norsemen to endure, for three years, the harshness of their way of life and the creatures that terrorize them

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 14 May 2012

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1994

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 September 1988

Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Films, starring Antonio Banderas. In the year A.D. 922, 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 their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But only in the depths of the Northland does he learn the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to

• Author : Michael Crichton,SPHERE.
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1994

• Author : Warren Lewis,William Wisher,John McTiernan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1991

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 2001

This collection of techno-thrillers by the New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park includes Congo, Sphere, and Eaters of the Dead.720 pp. Orig. $41.85.

• Author : Donald Tyson,Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release : 01 August 2021

A "supposed" translation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1920 forbidden text: Necronomicon.

• Author : J. H. Patterson
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 12 October 2018

It was towards noon on March 1, 1898, that I first found myself entering the narrow and somewhat dangerous harbour of Mombasa, on the east coast of Africa. The town lies on an island of the same name, separated from the mainland only by a very narrow channel, which forms the harbour; and as our vessel steamed slowly in, close under the quaint old Portuguese fortress built over three hundred years ago, I was much struck with the strange beauty of the

• Author : Kevin J. Wetmore Jr
• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• Release : 16 September 2021

Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to medieval Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, tales of being consumed are both universal and universally terrifying. In this book, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. explores the full range of monsters that eat the dead:

• Author : A. Richards,I. Omidvar
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 16 October 2014

This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.

• Author : Jennifer Sophia Ziegenfuss
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Lorraine Jean Hopping,Christopher Egan
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1992

Introduces the characteristics, habits, and environment of various species of meat-eating predators.

• Author : E. A. Wallis Budge
• Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
• Release : 01 January 2013

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive and detailed dictionaries of Egyptian hieroglyphs with English to accompany it. The series includes a detailed Introduction by the author with key words and glyphs, a bibliography of works used to help with translation and research, glyphs organized alphabetically by the Egyptian alphabet with accompanying words and English translations, tables of hieroglyphs with phonetic and numeric

• Author : David Rain
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 February 2018

"A remarkable blend of geography, demography, sociology, development economics, history, cultural anthropology, ecology, politics, sharia (Muslim religious law), and government policies.... This book dispels many misconceptions and is an education in itself." Choice