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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... heard tinny mur- murings from the 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 ...
Kenneth Oppel. I heard the captain shouting out the control car window through a bullhorn , " Endurance , this is the ... heard footsteps coming up the ladder . My watch was over , and I was being relieved by Pieter Riddihoff , a third ...
... t have noticed the ship slowing and turning , but even through the soundproof walls and windows of their cabins and staterooms , that bullhorn would yank a few from their sleep . " Damn nuisance , " I heard Mr. Rideau mutter 7.
Kenneth Oppel. " Damn nuisance , " I heard Mr. Rideau mutter . “ Mr. Kahlo , Mr. Chen . Grappling hooks . " I watched as the two men took hold of their heaving lines , each tipped with a four - pronged grapple . The engines had all but ...
... heard the crew above in the Aurora , cheering me . I heaved myself up , scrabbling with my feet for purchase , and then crashed over into the gondola . Beside the man . But there was not time to tend to him . I stood , grabbed hold of ...