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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... 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 CONTROL ROOM CREWS QUARTERS CROSS SECTION MAINFRAME CROWS.
... crew . He had a long pale face and pale blue eyes and a reddish nose that made him sound plugged up , and he always looked like he was on the verge of an annoyed little sigh . You got the feeling Mr. Rideau didn't much care for the crew ...
... crew sprang to it at once , manning the lines and wheeling out the davit's arm to its full length . " Let's see if she'll reach , " the captain said . " Swing her out , please . " Breathless , I watched , wondering if it would be long ...
... crew would have done it . But I was light too , the lightest here by sixty pounds . The cap- tain was afraid the gondola might be too flimsy to carry her own weight once she was hooked and reeled in , and he didn't want anything heavy ...
... crew swung the davit's arm out . I saw the deck of the cargo bay give way to the ocean's silvered surface , dark and supple as a snake's skin , four hundred feet below . The arm swung to its farthest point and stopped . The gondola was ...