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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    The surviving men of Franklin’s expedition return home a national embarrassment.

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    15 Oct 2024

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    In the half-year since their return, Francis had become aloof, impassive, withdrawn. There was no logic to this strange metamorphosis. At Greenhithe, Francis had promised to look after him. Had told James: Come find me. Yet Francis had never been further out of reach.

    On a cold spring day in 1849, Francis drops everything and flees London for his sister's farm in Ireland. James, hurt and hungry for answers, gives chase.

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    13 Oct 2024

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    James Fitzjames wakes up, choking on petals.

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    13 Oct 2024

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  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    Back in the Arctic, stuffed two to a sleeping sack and trying to keep each other alert, he and James used to name every good type of thing they would eat when they got back, knowing–as they thought–the time would never come.

    'Cream puffs', James had sighed one frigid night in a partial feverish delirium. Francis could hardly see him but for the lightest starlight, yet he had heard the smile evident in his voice all the same. That close, he had nearly felt it.

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    Hailed as heroes on their miraculous return to England, Francis and James fail to cope, but nonetheless manage to fall together.

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    13 Oct 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    A series of snapshots of James Fitzjames and Francis Crozier's relationship, starting in the Arctic and ending back in England—through all the times they got married without quite noticing, and the one time they did it right.

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    12 Oct 2024