AirbornHarper Collins, 2004年5月11日 - 368 頁 Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . . Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious. In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies. |
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... BONES 134 10 SHIPSHAPE 152 11 THE ONE THAT FELL 167 12 SHIPWRECKED 186 13 HYDRIUM 204 14 NEST 218 15 THE CLOUD CAT 239 16 RESCUE 246 17 THE PIT 270 18 SHIP TAKEN 288 2220 19 AIRBORNE 313 AIRBORN 330 21 AT ANCHOR 347 5193 AUXILIARY ...
... bones , hollow in the center to allow for easy flight . To swing across this little gap , four hundred feet aloft , was no more to me than skipping a crack in the pave- ment . Because deep in my heart , I felt that if I were ever to ...
... bones , and then remembered that I'd been on duty for more than sixteen hours , and normally would have been in my bunk asleep . Instead I'd been swinging across the sky . I started to climb out , but my knees went wobbly , and Captain ...
... bone , and my own hand felt icy against it . He shifted , and I took my hand away , afraid I'd disturbed him . His eyes opened . They were milky , and he stared through me like he was focused on something else . Like he was already ...
... bone and muscle and sinew as she angled up ever so slightly and left the earth below . Out the windows dozens of other airships were visible , some newly airborne like us , pointing toward all corners of the globe . There was the ...