Terror with delivery to Ireland

Terror recreates the course of the ill-fated research expedition of May 1845. Two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, under the command of the experienced seaman Sir John Franklin, set out for the northern coast of Canada in search of the North-West Passage. This is a series of straits between the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, where for several hundred years, at the cost of many lives, people had sought a way of sailing around North America in order to shorten the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The ships were loaded with sizeable stocks of food, which in theory were meant to last about five years. They were fitted with engines, necessary for forcing a way through the ice, and a supply of coal. Then, in May 1845, they were seen in England for the last time… Even today it is not known exactly what became of the individual members of that voyage. However, Dan Simmons drew on the available information, accounts of several later search expeditions, scraps of knowledge from indigenous tribes, conjecture and fantastical rumours… and created an intricate story of the last voyage of the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which became trapped in the ice, marking the beginning of the end of the expedition.
Terror is a gripping novel with elements of dread, horror and Inuit mythology, yet one that can be read like a detailed ship's log. We witness the tragic events as they unfold through the eyes not only of the officers, especially Captain Crozier, but also of the ordinary members of the crew. Dan Simmons, winner of many awards, including the Hugo Award and, in 1990, the Locus Award for his novel Hyperion, reconstructs with literary sensitivity and remarkable painstaking care the course of one of the most enigmatic research expeditions in the whole of known polar exploration history.
The edition of the book that the reader now holds has been enriched with an afterword by dr hab. Grzegorz Rachlewicz of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM) and a wealth of illustrations depicting the era of nineteenth-century polar conquests.