The Terror

A Novel

Hardcover, 784 pages

English language

Published by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-01744-2
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OCLC Number:
68416756

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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate …

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Subjects

  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
  • Horror - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Horror
  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / Thrillers
  • Sea monsters
  • Shipwrecks