This complex tale should find many devoted readers and add significantly to Simmons's already considerable reputation. And then there's the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence. Some men perish from disease, others from the cold, still others from botulism traced to tinned food purchased from the lowest bidder. With their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is a disaster from start to finish. , is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus Dan Simmons was born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1948, and grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional 'Elm Haven' in 1991s SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002s A WINTER HAUNTING. ) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage.
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