Mass Market Paperback, 960 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 2009 by Little, Brown and Co..
The men on board The HMS Terror—part of the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition—are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations and a dwindling coal supply. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in.
Poctivych 1066 gramu za nama. Horor nepatri mezi moje preferovany zanry (ani namorni tematika), jak si to vedlo? Dilo je to rozho kvalitni, lehka obava z nudy nenaplnena.
Ale? Kdo cetl od stejnyho autora Hyperion nebo Dobu mrchozroutu, vi, ze jde jit jeste o kus dal. V klidu hutnejsi cteni, ale nic zasadniho.
I think I liked this book. I'm not sure. But I don't know that I'd recommend it to anybody. The writing is engaging, the book is well-researched based on the theories of Terror and Erebus at the time he was writing. But it's so long! And so miserable! And does the protagonist have to fuck the only woman he meets?
I mean, based on the tale of a famous lost mission, it's not surprising it is grim, dark, and miserable. So if you want that in a book, then 4 stars. Because it's still too long.
The Terror was a ship - a state-of-the-art ice-breaker - and it had a sister-ship, Erebus. If you know mountains you may note that two volcanoes in Antarctica share these names. They were, in fact, named after the ships. These ships later saw service on an expedition to find the North-West Passage - and never returned.
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