The Terror - Dan Simmons

. == The Terror == === Dan Simmons === I don't know about you but I do like reading fiction that combines a little bit of history in it. So it is with this book 'The Terror' by Dan Simmons. This novel is a fictional account of Sir John Franklin's expedition of discovery to the North Pacific in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The HMS Terror and HMS Erebus had been to both poles in arduous missions where their reinforced hulls made them ...
...came home alive. In the 19th century, this outcome was shocking and several attempts at rescues were attempted, and even to the present day expeditions are still being sent out to try to find the wrecks of the ships or any new clues to what happened. The book is in part like a log or diary, part story - through the story Simmons gives a dramatic picture of a freezing, white land that is as dangerous and ruthless as it is beautiful At 784 pages long, ...

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