The Friday Face-Off: Longboat

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: “Odin, Odin, send the wind to turn the tide.” – A cover featuring a longboat.

So, yeah. Longboats are hard to find. I had to Google “fiction about Vikings” in order to find a book this week, and I finally settled on an old Michael Crichton book called Eaters of the Dead, which I have not read btw. And being a Michael Crichton book, of course his name takes up half the covers on most of these. BUT I do think I found some good ones, take a look:

U.S. edition 2009 (Harper) | French 2005 edition

Lithuanian edition 2009 | Hungarian edition 2015

U.S. edition 1976 (Knopf) | Italian edition 2010

U.S. edition 2016 (Harper) | Italian edition 2018

I tried to pick covers with boats on them, and succeeded except for the Italian 2018 edition, which is still pretty cool even if it doesn’t have a boat. To be honest, I’m not really crazy about any of these covers, but the U.S. 2016 edition jumps out at me because of the vibrant color and the interesting composition. So, I’ll have to go with it as my favorite!

But I’d love to know which cover you like best! Have you read this book?

Posted April 12, 2019 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 21 Comments

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21 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Longboat

  1. Uff, they are all really good i think! I find these kind of boats super terrifying. I’m guessing that was the aim! 😀

  2. I need to read this. It’s one of my favorite authors writing about one of my favorite things. And I think there is a movie loosely based on this which I kind of enjoyed (The 13th Warrior maybe?).

    Anyway- my favorite cover is probably the US 2016 edition, but I also sort of like the Lithuanian 2009 edition.

  3. Fee Roberts

    Great choice. I have never heard of this. I’ll be checking this one out. Thanks! 🙂

  4. Nice pick! I do like the US one you chose, and I agree the Italian one is still pretty neat! I like the silhouette style of the 2010 Italian edition as well, but all the text takes away from the overall cover.

  5. I can see why you chose the one you did, but the colors on the Lithuanian one jumped out at me most, and the Hungarian is my favorite in terms of design, though I don’t *love* any of these either. But I don’t know a single cover that has a longboat, so you did good finding this one!
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