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. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 6 筆
... clear area near the loading doors in the ship's hull . There were already a number of sailmakers on the scene , plus the first officer , Paul Rideau , talking on the ship's phone , no doubt with the captain . He caught a glimpse of me ...
... clear . Someone's going to need to hook themselves to the end of the davit and swing across to the gondola . It's the only way to get to her before she goes down . " He looked across at Mr. Kahlo and Mr. Chen , and the machinists and ...
... clearly . " Sailing . All around , " he said . It took him a long time to get this out , swallowing and giving little coughs between the words . " Probably always . Been there . Only no one's . Ever . Seen them . " He tried to get up ...
... clear of their forks , " he warned me as we pirouetted round each other at the dumb waiter . " I was nearly stabbed clean through . They'll be eating the cutlery soon ! " " And us if we're not quick enough , " I added . Baz guf- fawed ...
... clear in case we needed to allow for an aerial landing . When I arrived , the crew were just opening the bay doors in the floor . With alarming speed they split apart , and each long half rolled back flush with the ship's underbelly ...