Bibliograph

The terror, a novel, Dan Simmons

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The terror, a novel, Dan Simmons

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The terror

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Dan Simmons

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching and brutally killing their fellow seamen. Captain Crozier, who has taken over the expedition after the death of its original leader, Sir John Franklin, draws equally on his strengths as a mariner and on the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued as he sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until even Crozier begins to fear there may be no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare

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