Дэн Симмонс - The Terror

Other sources consulted include The Inuit by Nancy Bonvillain (Chelsea House Publications, © 1995); Eskimos by Kaj BirketSmith (Crown, © 1971); The Fourth World by Sam Hall (Knopf, © 1987); Ancient Land: Sacred Whale — The Inuit Hunt and Its Rituals by Tom Lowenstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, © 1993); The Igloo by Charlotte and David Yue (Houghton Mifflin, © 1988); Arctic Crossing by Jonathan Waterman (Knopf, © 2001); Hunters of the Polar North — The Eskimos by Wally Herbert (Time-Life Books, © 1981); The Eskimos by Ernest S. Burch Jr. (University of Oklahoma Press, © 1988); and Inuit: When Words Take Shape by Raymond Brousseau (Editions Glénat, © 2002).

My sincere thanks to Karen Simmons for finding… and returning… many of these later sources.

Internet sources were too many to list, but they include The Aujaqsquittuq Project: Documenting Arctic Climate Change; Spiritism On Line; The Franklin Trial; Enchanted Learning: Animals — Polar Bear ( Ursus martimus ); Collections Canada; Digital Library Upenn; Radiworks.cbe; Wordgumbo — Canadian Inuit-English Dictionary; Alaskool English to Iñupia; Inuktitut Language Phrases; Darwin Wars; Cangeo.ca Special Feature — Sir John Franklin Expedition; and SirJohnFranklin.com.

The Internet was also my primary access route to primary source materials, including the Francis Crozier Collection, held at Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge; the Sophia Cracroft Collection (ibid); Sophia Cracroft correspondence; Notes for the Memoir of Jane Franklin. Also included are details of ships’ musters, dates, and official documents from the Records of the British Admiralty, Naval Forces, and Royal Marines; records from the Home Office (UK), and legal documents concerning the investigation into the Goldner food canning irregularities from the Supreme Court of Judicature (UK).

Useful illustrations and maps came from Harper’s Weekly (April 1851), The Athenaeum (February 1849), Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (November 1855), and other sources.

The letter from Dr. Harry D. S. Goodsir to his uncle, 2 July 1845, is in the collection of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and was quoted in Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger.

Finally, my sincere thanks to my agent, Richard Curtis; to my first editor at Little, Brown, Michael Mezzo; to my current editor, Reagan Arthur; and — as always — to Karen and Jane Simmons for encouraging me to go on and then waiting for me while I was on this particularly long Arctic expedition.

The Edwardian age:a time when shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fasted vessels, the rich vied with one another with their displays of wealth, and science dazzled the public with visions of a world made wondrous.

The Murderer:Wanted for what would become the twentieth-century’s most infamous murders, Dr Hawley Crippen fled England on a ship bound for America accompanied by his unsuspecting mistress disguised as a boy.

The Detective:A Veteran of the Ripper case, Inspector Walter Dew found himself strangely sympathetic to the murderer and his young lover.

The Inventor:Guglielmo Marconi drove himself to the brink in his obsessive struggle to perfect his visionary creation, but his ‘wireless’ would play a pivotal role in catching the killer.

Written with riveting attention to detail, narrative drive and an uncanny ability to bring a bygone era to life, this true story culminates in one of the most spectacular criminal chases of all time, as one luxury liner pursued another across the Atlantic, and recalls an extraordinary and largely forgotten chapter from history.

‘METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED… A FASCINATING READ’

‘LARSON HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL MASTERY OF HISTORICAL DETAIL AND A REAL FLAIR FOR SUSPENSE’

‘SHINES A VIVID ELECTRIC LIGHT ON THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN AGE… LARSON IS A GREAT MASTER OF NARRATIVE’

‘LARSON HAS DONE IT AGAIN… AS IN HIS LAST BOOK, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY , HE HAS TAKEN AN UNLIKELY HISTORICAL SUBJECT AND SPUN IT INTO GOLD’

Jane Franklin became a world traveller in an age when women were expected to stay at home and raise a family. She journeyed far off the beaten path of Grand-Tour Europe to explore Russia, Greece, the Holy Land and northern Africa.

She married Captain John Franklin at thirty-six and helped him to seize the opportunity of a lifetime – to lead a Royal Navy expedition intended to solve the final riddle of the Northwest Passage. After Franklin disappeared into the Arctic, she badgered the Admiralty into dispatching dozens of ships to rescue him; she financed voyages through public subscription, paid for others out of her own pocket, and even inspired the president of the United States to contribute to the search.

Jane Franklin’s effort to make her husband’s doomed voyage into a great heroic endeavour secured Sir John Franklin’s reputation as a legendary explorer – and opened up the Arctic as never before.

‘DETAILED, THOROUGH AND COMPULSIVE’

Jerusalem, 70 AD. As the legions of Rome besiege the Holy Temple, a boy is given a secret that he must guard with his life…

Southern Germany, December 1944. Six emaciated Nazi prisoners drag a mysterious crate deep into a disused mine. They too give their lives to keep the secret safe: murdered by their guards…

Egypt, Valley of the Kings, the present day. A body is found amongst some ruins. It appears to be an open-and-shut case but the more inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police uncovers about the dead man, the more uneasy he becomes. And his investigation turns out to be anything but routine. Khalifa doesn’t know it yet, but he is on the trail of an extraordinary long-lost artifact that could, in the wrong hands, turn the Middle East into a blood bath. It’s a dangerous path he’s taking – and what’s more he’s not alone.

From ancient Jerusalem, the Crusades, Cathar heretics and coded medieval manuscripts to the Holocaust, hidden Nazi treasure and the murderous present-day, this is a thrilling rollercoaster ride of an adventure.

‘THE INTELLIGENT READER’S ANSWER TO THE DA VINCI CODE: A BIG, FAT, SATISFYING ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUZZLE’