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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... 167 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 ...
... hydrium gas inside the cells . I dropped down onto the keel catwalk . The main thor- oughfare , it ran the entire length of the ship , from the control car , the officer quarters , and the luxurious passenger decks near the bow all the ...
... hydrium to keep us level with the bal- loon , but now we had gone as low as we safely could . Any nearer was foolhardy , for you never knew when a sudden gust or rogue front might clutch the ship and thrust her down into the drink ...
... hydrium and pumped water into our ballast and drinking tanks . And the food ! What we took on was quite something— and I should know for I helped lug it all on board : sixteen hun- dred pounds of potatoes , thirty - two hundred eggs , a ...
... hydrium being the lightest gas in the world . Much lighter than helium and even lighter than hydrogen . But when you saw the Aurora , saw her floating and rising , you forgot all about the math and just stared . Up ship ! No time for ...