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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... control car suspended from the Aurora's belly . " Go ahead , Mr. Cruse . " It was Captain Walken on watch tonight , and I was glad , for I much preferred him to the other officers . Some of them just called me " Cruse " or " boy ...
... control car as the captain conferred with the bridge officers . " It's not on the flight plan , " I heard Mr. Torbay , the navi- gator , say . Every airship had to register its flight plan before depart- ing . If this vessel wasn't on ...
Kenneth Oppel. I heard the captain shouting out the control car window through a bullhorn , " Endurance , this is the Aurora . Please respond , " again and again . If the pilot had been asleep , this should have roused him , but after a ...
... control car , the officer quarters , and the luxurious passenger decks near the bow all the way back to the cargo bays and crew quarters in the stern . Normally after my watch , I'd head back to my cabin for sleep . But I had no ...
... control car and assume my watch . I'll take over here , thank you . " " Yes , sir , " said Mr. Rideau , but I could tell he didn't much like that . said . " Ready the davit , please , gentlemen 9.