我要感谢以下书籍文献，提供我许多写作《极地恶灵》用的参考资料。 把这时期的北极探险写成一部小说的想法，来自雷诺夫·费恩斯爵士在《Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest》（Hyperion, 2004）一书中谈到富兰克林探险队的一小段注解（几乎只是个注脚）。那本书谈论的极地其实是南极。

在刚开始的资料研读阶段里，对我特别有帮助的三本书是： Scott Cookman, Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000) ; Owen Beattie/John Geiger, Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Greystone Books, Douglas & McIntyre, 1987) ; Pierre Berton, The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 (Second Lyons Press Edition, 2000)。

这些书引导我进一步去查阅他们的宝贵参考文献，包括：

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea (John Murray, 1823); Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea (John Murray, 1828) ; Richard Cyriax, Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition (ASM Press, 1939) ; Chris Ware, The Bomb Vessel (Naval Institute Press, 1994) ; F. L. M'Clintock, A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin (John Murray, 1859) ; In Quest of the Northwest Passage (Longmans, Green & Co, 1958) ; Peter Sutherland, Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-51, Performed by H. M. Ships“Lady Franklin”and“Sophia”Under the Command of Mr. William Penny, in Search of the Missing Crew of H.M. Ships“Erebus”and“Terror”(Longman, Grown, Green and Longmans, 1852) ; Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin (T. Nelson & Sons, 1898)。

此外，我也经常参考下面这些书：

Pierre Berton, Prisoners of the North: Portraits of Five Arctic Immortals (Carroll & Graff, 2004) ; Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole (Grove Press, 2001) ; William Laird McKinlay, The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster (St. Martin's Griffin Edition, 1976) ; Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) ; Jennifer Niven, The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyake of the Karluk (Hyperion, 2000) ; Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic Edge (North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) ; Chauncey Loomis, Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Paperback Edition, 2000) ; David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica (Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin, 1992) ; Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole(The Modern Library, 1999) ; Alvah Simon, North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic (Broadway Books, 1998) ; Valerian Albanov, In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Modern Library, 2000) ; Peter Matthiessen, End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica (National Geographic, 2003) ; Ken McGoogan, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Carrol& Graf, 2001); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (National Geographic, 1992, 2000) ; Roland Huntford, Shackleton (Fawcett Columbine, 1985)。

我也参考了下面这些书：

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

我非常感激凯伦·西蒙斯帮我找到……并且帮我归还……前述的许多文献。

网际网络上的资料多到列举不完，不过有些还是值得在此一提。

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 Iupia; Inuktitut Language Phrases; Darwin Wars; Cangeo.ca Special Feature-Sir John Franklin Expedition; and SirJohnFranklin.com.

网际网络也是我查阅原始资料的主要途径，包括剑桥大学斯考特极地研究所的：

Francis Crozier Collection;

Sophia Cracroft Collection;

Sophia Cracroft correspondence;

Notes for the Memoir of Jane Franklin。

此外，还有英国海军部、皇家海军及皇家海军陆战队的记录中关于船员名录、日期，及官方文件的一些细节记载；英国内政部的记录；英国最高法院关于葛德纳罐头瑕疵状况的一些正式调查报告。

一些很有参考价值的图片及地图：

Harper's Weekly (April 1851),

The Athenaeum (February 1849),

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine。

最后，我要诚挚地感谢我的经纪人理查德·柯提思，我在“小布朗”的第一位编辑迈克尔·梅茨，现在的编辑里根·阿瑟，以及凯伦和简·西蒙斯，她们一如既往地鼓励我继续向前走，并且当我还在做非常漫长的极地探险时，耐心地等着我回来。