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Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a sea monster, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin.
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Fiction, historical, Fiction, horror, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Historical Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Shipwrecks, Shipwreck survival, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Survival, Sea stories, Sea monsters, Ships, Monsters, Mutiny, Betrayal, Cannibalism, Inuit, Arctic regions, fiction, Fiction, New York Times reviewedPeople
Francis Crozier (1796-1848), James Fitzjames (1813-1848), Harry Goodsir (1819-1848), Cornelius Hickey, Magnus Manson, Thomas Blanky, Harry Peglar, John Bridgens, Robert Golding, Lady Silence, John Franklin (1786-1847)Places
Arctic, Arctic regions, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Archipelago, King William Island, Northwest Passage, CanadaTimes
19th century, 1845-1848Showing 7 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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The terror: a novel
2009, Little, Brown and Co.
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El terror
April 2008, Roca
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The Terror: A Novel
January 8, 2007, Little, Brown and Company
Hardcover
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Includes excerpt from Drood.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 957-960).
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The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time – mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival – or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
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Chapter 1: Crozier
Chapter 58: Goodsir
— From the personal diary of Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir
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