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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... 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 and didn't look entirely ...
... doors . Instinctively I spread my legs apart for balance . Once those doors were opened , the wind - even though it was a gentle one — would come galloping in and knock us about . With a hiss , the two doors pulled in and rolled flush ...
... doors and saw that the balloon and the Aurora were very close to touching at their widest points . No one wanted a collision , even with something as soft as a balloon , for you never knew if there was something sharp that would snag or ...
... doors was a davit , a small crane with an extendible arm that swung out and raised and lowered cargo when we were docked . The crew sprang to it at once , manning the lines and wheeling out the davit's arm to its full length . " Let's ...
... doors . They paid out more cable until I was at the same level as the gondola , not six feet away . I felt no fear . If someone had put an ear to my chest , he'd find it beating no faster than it had in the crow's nest . It was not ...