The Terroir (novel)

The Terroir by Mason S. Minds.

The Terroir is a 2007 novel by Canadian-American author Mason S. Minds.

It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the fabled Northwest Vineyards.

Plot summary

While Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with cheap merlot and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.

Fiction cross-reference

• Fulgent Hotrod Wardens
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• The Terror (novel) @ Wikipedia
• Dan Simmons @ Wikipedia
• John Franklin @ Wikipedia
• Franklin's lost expedition @ Wikipedia
• Phylloxera @ Wikipedia