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epub | 8.24 MB | English| Isbn:9780316003889 | Author: Dan Simmons | Year: 2007
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Quote:The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly).Category:Fiction, Awards, Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction Subjects, Historical Fiction, Character Types - Fiction, Thrillers, Nautical & Maritime Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, 19th Century Historical Fiction - General & Miscellaneous, Explorers - Fiction, Historical Thrillers, Nautical Exploration - Fiction, Sailors - Fiction, Entertainment Weekly's Best Fiction of 2007, USA Today's Best Books of 2007, Washington Post Best Historical Fiction of 2007
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