A Part of All That They Have Met
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Remembering two retired sea captains, survivors of a disastrous expedition, who lived out their golden years on an idyllic Hertfordshire farm.
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The year is 1885, and Professor Harry D.S. Goodsir—distinguished anatomist, decorated veteran of the Crimea, and the last living survivor of Sir John Franklin's disastrous final expedition—has signed on as surgeon for a new expedition to the Arctic. And his daughter is not going to let him go alone.
Physician Agnes Goodsir has always known that her beloved father left some part of his heart and soul in the barrens of King William Island forty years ago. Now, she sails at his side on a journey that will reveal at last the secrets he has kept from his family for all these years.
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- Part 2 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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A miraculous rescue cannot stop Francis Crozier's nightmares, but perhaps James Fitzjames can find a way.
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- Part 3 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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Harry Goodsir's life, imagined as a garden of forking paths. It's 1848 and he is dying in a tent on King William Island. It's 1849 and he is having yet another tiresome argument with the administration of Surgeons' Hall over funding for the museum while he waits for his friend Edward Forbes to return from the Arctic. It's 1854 and he's serving in the Crimea with James Fitzjames. It's 1861 and he is collecting butterflies under the watchful eyes of asylum orderlies. It's 1870 and he is walking on the beach near Fife with his children. It's 1886 and Silna holds his hand as he breathes his last. All of these things are true.
It is somewhat curious to notice that we can thus conceive of an existence relative to which that which we enjoy must exist as a mere abstraction.
—Charles H. Hinton, "What Is the Fourth Dimension?"Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2Series
- Part 4 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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Not all of Fitzjames's tales are war stories.
The verse adorn again
Fierce War, and faithful Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.
—Thomas Gray, "The Bard: A Pindaric Ode"Series
- Part 5 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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A Part of All That They Have Met: Annotations and Commentary by hangingfire
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
27 Aug 2022
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Originally this was a commentary supplement for "The Last of Our Sea-Sorrow" only; I've decided to use it now for all the stories in this series, mainly so that I don't repeat my own jokes too many times.
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- Part 6 of A Part of All That They Have Met