I plowed into The Terror at the beginning of July, after coming across it on a random visit to Indigo. It was in the Horror section. I have this ongoing interest in The Arctic, and I blame it on my reading of The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton. The book fantasizes about what really happened to the John Franklin expedition, whose ships, The Terror and Erebus vanished in the Arctic and has never been found, despite dozens of searches over the decades, and as recently as last year by a Canadian icebreaker.
All we know is that the crew starved slowly, agonizingly, and attempted to walk overland to the nearest fur-trading outpost in NWT, hundreds and hundreds of miles away. One look at the landscape of NWT on Google Earth will convince you that this is impossible! We also know that they were all being slowly poisoned with lead from their crappy tinned food. What we don't know is where the book begins.... an unknown creature is lurking on the ice and attacking the ships as they overwinter in the ice.
I like the ending of this book, which paints a very realistic view of the Inuit. It is a hopeful book, and an entertaining read.
