Just finished reading "The Terror" by Dan Simmons. It's quite a good book. The story is based on the very real "Northwest Passage expedition" in 1845,1848. It follows the 2 ships in the expedion when they start getting stuck in ice for over 3 years, and while beeing stuck, they are (the crew) slowly dying of malnutrition and other illnesses and also by an unknown "force" that is hunting them. The narrative is centered around the "second" captain of the Expedition Capt'n Crozier who manage to outlast all of his crew to fulfill his destiny. The descriptions of the life in one of those ship is worth the price of the book; what we take for granted now is inimaginable (sp?). They all suffer from cold, lack of hygien, bad food, boredom, ... 8/10.
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