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Rated: 18+ · Book · Steampunk · #2343181

Six tales of steampunk adventure in the skies of Victorian Africa

         In the spring of 1882, a young man arrives in Mombasa, Kenya with a plan to change the world of science. A man ahead of his time. Nicholas Ellsworth is a botanist fresh from Cambridge whose mission is to catalog the flora of Africa and unlock its medicinal secrets for the benefit of mankind.
         Intrigued by a lovely young woman who happens to be an airship pilot of extraordinary skill, he falls in with a crew expatriates, misfits and castoffs all, whose cargo blimp, the Kestrel, carries them from one adventure to the next as they try to eke out a living moving cargo out beyond the rails.
         Their captain, a disgraced former military commander, is employer, protector, and father-figure to the young pilot, the Anglo-Prussian engineer, and a fugitive American gunslinger whose mysterious past could catch up with him at any time. Climb aboard and hang on for a thrilling ride through an alternate history!
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