The Terror A Novel |
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| Author:
| Simmons, Dan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-316-01745-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Little Brown & Company
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| Imprint: | Back Bay Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.99 |
Book Description:
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The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS
Terror -- part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage -- are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to...
More Description The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).
The men on board the HMS Terror -- part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage -- are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
"The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years." --Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe