The men on board the 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 comman and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: survival, fiction, shipwrecks, sea monsters, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, franklin, john, 1786-1847, fiction, crozier, francis rawdon moira, 1796-1848, terror (ship), fiction, shipwreck survival, ship captains, polar bear, eskimo women, northwest passage, fiction, arctic regions, discovery and exploration, sea fiction, horror fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction, action and adventure fiction
Editions
Simmons, Dan
Little, Brown (2007)
The confidence of crew members aboard the HMS "Terror" in 1845 begins to erode when the ship is trapped for a second summer in the ice at the Arctic Circle, and the dwindling food and coal supplies, as well as unrelenting cold, become the least of their worries when it becomes clear they are being stalked by an unknown and monstrous predator.
Schools: 1
Simmons, Dan
The men on board the 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 comman and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.
Schools: 1