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His senior year he received the national phi beta kappa award for excellence in fiction, art and journalism. Like us on facebook follow us on twitter free mp3 download the terror is a 2007 novel by american author dan simmons. It is a fictionalized account of captain sir john franklins lost expedition of hms erebus and hms terror. The amount of work and research thats gone into this tome deserves wellreceived recognition. Simmons chooses a variety of characters to tell a story of an incompetent royal navy, numerous bad decisions, failure for the victorian explorers to work with the native inuit people or understand the arctic environment, and the abandonment of both ships and an attempt to haul boats over the. In 1845, the franklin expedition headed for the northwest passage, seeking a shorter trade route between europe and asia.
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