![]() ![]() With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. ![]() hen 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. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. o, the real threat is far more terrifying. ![]() Just one of our titles in our Navigation. 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. The Terror by Dan Simmons is based on true events surrounding Her Britannic Majestys Ships Terror and Erebus. ut the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. 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.
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