"It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern,
scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period."
Michael Crichton isn't USUALLY on my list of reads, although I will admit there are moments. This is one of them. I first saw the movie with Gerard Butler before discovering the book, but then fell in love with it (of course). Who doesn't want to time travel, especially these days? But going back has its own unforeseen dangers and consequences, as the team of intrepid archaeologists and explorers soon discovers. It's bad enough they fall right in the middle of an English - French pow-wow - but what will they do when it becomes clear they've been outplayed, and worse, tricked?
In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival -- six hundred years ago.
(from Goodreads)
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