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  • Somehow memories of reading this book are with me 6 years later. I like Vikings, maybe?

    

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  • Very strange, for a Crichton book, but a fascinating read all the same.

    

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In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, 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 Scandanavia and save his countrymen and families from the monsters of the mist....

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