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File Size: 2758 KB
Print Length: 241 pages
Publisher: Dundurn; 1 edition (August 9, 2010)
Publication Date: December 14, 2012
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Language: English
ASIN: B00AETRB40
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I am not going to delve into the details of the entire life ofJames Fitzjames except to say,he was born out of wedlock(which could make if difficult for someone to,get ANYWHERE inthe Victorian world). Fitzjames found himself set back but,somehowwould go forward ( by omission,chance,or deception ).The author has created a well rounded bio using many sources but,one glaring missing link and that is the identity of Fitzjames mother.I did enjoy the book and it revealed to me all the info known thus faron James Fitzjames and am I a little bit smitten with the romance of fantasyafter staring at the two daguerreotypes of James for the past 30 yearsand never knowing much about the man ? ? ? YES. Where is my time machine ?Overall,a VERY good biography on a member of the Franklin Expedition.
This is a well-written and thoroughly researched biography of one of the lesser-known officers of the Franklin Expedition. While a good-humored, unpretentious man himself, he lived an astonishing life well before embarking with Franklin's last expedition. Plenty of inclusions of rare source documents, especially the well-chosen excerpts from letters and journals, bring James Fitzjames the man vividly to life, making his tragic end even more poignant. A unique work in Franklin lore and a page-turning, well-written read as well. I can't even bring myself to take a star off for the sub-par Kindle conversion, which was beyond the author's control (but deliberately leaving out a live index, especially for a book like this, is weaksauce you publisher folks, come on.)
Highly recommended for Franklin Expedition enthusiasts. This book is beautifully detailed and illustrated, and a nice easy read as well.
For Franklin aficionados, this is a breathtaking piece of historical research. Other authors have categorized Fitzjames as some kind of ultimate Englishman, but Battersby discovers and unveils a shocking secret and documents it perfectly.
The author does a great job bringing Mr Fitzjames to life. I have always wondered about him after i saw his picture as part of Franklins crew. A real live person, a real shame he lost his life in such a tragic way.
As an avid Franklin Expedition researcher since the days of Dr. Owen Beattie's exhumations of the Franklin crew on Beechey Island (1984), I was thrilled to find a biography about one of the officers, Commander James Fitzjames, with the idea that it would shine some light about his origins.But as I read this book I personally found myself lost in the myriad of personal relationships and history woven into the story itself (some sadly with the author's personal interjections to support his views). It reads more like a personal publication by a country gentlemen of the time, with all the naming of names and first person beliefs. It resembles so much the biographies of today of the NASA astronauts, which paint them as saints while neglecting to tell the public they were actual human beings with all the complexities (so the public can see/feel that their heroes were one of them, not some mythical being that never really existed). This I'm sure is to not alienate families, who without their help personal details will be short, but at the same time the efforts to protect their honor and ideals of a famed loved one...we have the story of James Fitizjames' background in the end, the fragmented ideas of a person who had to lie to be anyone in, then, contemporary society.Years ago a famous Arctic author shared with me his personal notes his research assistant gathered, with a note they were to never be used for publication. I kept my word to never reveal nor publish the details (which dovetailed with what has been published in this book). The internet may have soften these privacy concerns today, but 20 years ago there were these restrictions on personal papers. Researchers so much want to know these details to understand how the Franklin Expedition became what it became, and the history that has been written about Franklin and crew has been thwarted due to family sensitivities (the British are much more strict on libel than Americans, for example). This book has opened a door into the life about one officer (and revealed some other personal details -- like Mate Thomas Blanky hid his birth origins of being Jewish, thus, changing his name to hide it [which during WWI we learned Germans did the same to hide from discrimination]).With all this secrecy and family sensitivities (which I've encountered online as well with John Shaw Torrington [the first sailor Dr. Beattie exhumed on Beechey Island] and how people wanting to associate with his past, despite the written records claims he was the last and only offspring. That was never good enough, they just h-a-d to be related!), researchers will remain stumped about who these men really were and how they could've acted in the distressing times just before/after abandoning the ships in 1848 (well, at least the HMS Terror, as we know -- with archaeological evidence now -- the HMS Erebus was manned later and sailed to near O'Reilly Island and moored into a safe harbor, thus not suffering the fate of HMS Fury).The book I feel would've been much more important if the author let the story unfold "as is", not interjecting his personal beliefs about Fitzjames' origins (we do not know for a fact who his mother was, and considering how much Franklin researchers had to respect privacy conditions to even have access to material stored at the NMM and SPRI, we may never truly know as some British family out there would probably terribly dislike the illegitimacy claim[s] even in the 21st century).Researchers, thus, may never get a true portrait of these men that were made into myths of a nation, which is sad, because history does need to be told truthfully. I terribly disliked myself reading all these years of how Franklin and crew were lambasted as bumbling European fools, yet know that these men believed so much in what they were doing to not jeopardize their very lives over stupid things as leaden themselves down with curtain rods on a forlorn hope march. Fitzjames had ambitions, as well as the other officers and men. They would not take to eating their dead lightly, as the same society that keeps researchers and their notes hidden due to sensitivities in the 20th-21st centuries, were even more ruthless in keeping horrible secrets hidden from the public record (what Charles Dickens did was horrible to blame the Inuit, all to protect the sense and sensibilities of the 129!).This book's content is worth 20 pages of details once the interpersonal history was removed (history people are best to read from dedicated history books than a biography, too), as the "notes" are pretty light but of interpersonal interactions. I've read some of the details from other officer personal papers (that again laid out in this book, showing the same resources were used), and it does give ideas about them, yet researchers will still be in a mystery about who these gentlemen truly were, not because history clouds the minds, but due to families wanting to protect their loved one's images (let alone nations -- both Britain and Canada now).Let history tell itself, so those in the 25th century won't face what we in the 20th century faced in all this secrecy!
This book is a must-read for any follower of the Franklin Mystery. William Battersby has written an exciting account of an exciting- and previously misunderstood- man. I refuse to summarize this book because everyone should read Battersby's detailed research for themselves, but I can promise you that the real story of James Fitzjames, the "quintessential 19th century Englishman" is well handled by this author, and done so with a dry British wit that even an American can appreciate. I'll never look at Fitzjames' daguerreotype the same way again.
This is an absorbing read, by an author clearly passionate about his subject. I knew nothing about James Fitjzames before reading this, but putting the book down after reading it I knew about this fascinating character who had taken part on the doomed Franklin Expedition.The author writes in a scholarly style - stating his sources clearly, and his methods of research - but he also writes with charm an humour. One suspects an affinity between author and subject. Fitzjames's adventures on the Euphrates, in particular, are both daring and - at times - hilarious.The book left me wanting to know more, and I recommend it highly.
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