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La verdadera historia de una legendaria expedición al Ártico, transformada en una excitante y extraordinaria novela en la línea del mejor Stephen King o Patrick O'Brien y llevada a la TV en una extraordinaria serie de 10 episodios.
En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada británica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, están atrapados en el hielo del Ártico. En su anhelada busca del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada por continuar su marcha y completar su expedición, rodeados del frío polar y de inminentes peligros, sólo pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar.
Poco a poco, los días van pasando y las condiciones de supervivencia se vuelven más extremas; temperaturas que superan los cincuenta grados bajo cero, provisiones de comida escasas, el deterioro de los barcos o la llegada de enfermedades van mellando la esperanza de la tripulación Por si fuera poco, la extraña presencia de una criatura bestial y misteriosa hace que los hombres crean que se enfrentan no sólo a las condiciones naturales más adversas, sino también a fuerzas sobrenaturales que superan, por momentos, sus creencias y su razón. Con el tiempo y la llegada de las primeras muertes, fantasmas como el de la rebelión, el motín o el canibalismo hacen su entrada en escena, en un panorama desolador.
Basada en hechos reales, El Terror es una magnífica novela en la que Dan Simmons consigue que el lector se sienta, aterido, uno más de los tripulantes extraviados en el Polo.
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Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Fiction, Shipwreck survival, Sea stories, Sea monsters, Shipwrecks, Arctic regions, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, Fiction, horror, Fiction, sea stories, Survival, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, generalShowing 7 featured editions. View all 22 editions?
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The terror: a novel
2009, Little, Brown and Co.
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El terror
April 2008, Roca
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The Terror: A Novel
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"La verdadera historia de una legendaria expedición al Ártico, transformada en una excitante y extraordinaria novela" --Jacket
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The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. 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. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. 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. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time – mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When 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. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival – or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
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