Top products from r/TheTerror
We found 13 product mentions on r/TheTerror. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated (Modern Library Exploration)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
2. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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3. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony, Second Edition (Volume 5) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
4. Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
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5. Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
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6. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
7. The Career, Last Voyage And Fate Of Sir John Franklin (1860)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
8. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
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9. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
10. Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Episode 2 of The Terror is titled “Gore” – ostensibly for the HMS Erebus lieutenant whose ill-starred sledge party provokes the onslaught of the Tuunbaq on the Franklin Expedition, but also as a not-too-subtle reference to the gruesome manner in which it begins to decimate the crews – beginning, of course, with Graham Gore (played by Tom Weston-Jones) himself.
In real life, however, Gore’s journey was probably more triumphant. Or at least to the extent that any triumph is possible in an expedition in which all hands are ultimately lost.
Later, of course, we know from relics and human remains that what remained of the rest of the expedition crews traveled much the same ground the following spring and summer, reaching the southern littoral of King William Island explored by Simpson fourteen years previously – and, for the most part, dying from scurvy and starvation at various points along it. The Terror is not completely remiss in this connection, however. In Episode 9, Tom Blanky is given what was likely Graham Gore’s honor, depicted planting himself on the shore along Simpson Strait, exultingly scrawling “Northwest Passage” on his map shortly before he meets his end at the hands (claws?) of the Tuunbaq.
But perhaps it is fitting that an icebound passage ends up discovered by the ship’s ice master.
Michael Palin wrote an excellent book called Erebus that was released last year. I can personally recommend.
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time https://www.amazon.com/dp/1771644419/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DxToDb368MVE7
I recommend reading Roland Huntford’s book “The Last Place on Earth” (and/ or the miniseries based upon the book) which describes the race to the South Pole between Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition and Britains Robert Falcon Scott. The Norwegians used sled dogs and Inuit technology and won without a loss, the English used tractors and Siberian Ponies ... and were all lost. Brilliantly told.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375754741/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_3y-3AbRK4221T
Film (not pleased to see the price-gouging but for reference)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RBC5LK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DE-3Ab3TQ8VJV
I'm currently reading Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. I picked it up after watching the series because I wanted to know more about what happened to the crew and such. While this book is good, it's not about that really. What it is about is basically the search for the truth of the expedition from early searches in the mid 1800's to exhumations of corpses in the 1980's when the book was originally published. This version is a rerelease with additional material added after the boats were found, although I haven't gotten to that part yet.
The Karluk was the absolute craziest story. I think this was the book I read about it- highly recommended https://www.amazon.ca/Ice-Master-Doomed-Voyage-Karluk/dp/0786884460
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https://www.amazon.com/The-Terror-Season-1/dp/B07BDRPQTT
If anyone wants to pay 18-25$ for Season 1 and do a dirty deed, it's right there lol
The wiki article on the expedition is a great place to start. There's also a number of new books (like this one) that are coming out about the expedition, since Terror was finally located in 2016.
Gore's note and its modifications by Crozier and Fitzjames is a powerful sight to behold. The linked page has the full text written out, since the handwriting is difficult to read in the image. It's one thing to watch the show or read the book, but it's entirely another to see with your eyes the actual paper that these men—who were both similar to and very different from the fictionalized versions we know—touched with their actual hands.
Imagining them squatting in the freezing cold next to that tall cairn, slowly scratching out a message as their ink froze and their hands shook, all out in the middle of that blasted desolation—it's just really, really haunting.