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Antoine Vanner
Antoine Vanner is the author of the Dawlish Chronicles series of naval adventures set in the late 19th Century. Nicholas Dawlish is a British naval officer as the British Empire reaches its apogee in the late Victorian period. The Age of Sail is dying slowly and Dawlish is building his career in the new era of steam, ironclads, heavy guns and torpedoes that is replacing it.
Old enemies and new empires are challenging Britain’s global power, often through vicious proxy conflicts which offer Dawlish opportunities for advancement, though at the risk of his life and his integrity.
His story is told in the Dawlish Chronicles. Click below for details.
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Almirante Lynch, 1891 – sea combat in the Pacific
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A word from Antoine Vanner
In this 5-minute video Vanner introduces Britannia’s Innocent, the first chronologically of the 12-volume (so far) Dawlish Chronicles series of naval adventure novels set in the late 19th Century. They can all be read as “standalones” but if you haven’t yet begun to read the series, this is the book with which to start.
A Free Short Story for your Kindle
Join the mailing list for receiving the Dawlish Chronicles Newsletter. As welomce you’ll receive a short story to load on your Kindle, tablet, mobile ‘phone or computer. You may also download it in PDF format. “Britannia’s Rescuers” finds Lieutenant Nicholas Dawlish on slave-trade supression duties off the coast of Oman in 1875.
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More free short stories, as above, and available only to those on the list, will also be made available to you as they’re written.
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