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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... 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 rid- ing a cloud . The sky pulsed with stars . Some ...
... keeping track . Baz and I had a little contest going , and I was in the lead by twelve stars . Then I saw it . Or didn't see it . Because at first all I noticed was a black- ness where stars should have been . I raised my spyglass again ...
... keeping the captain abreast of our position - and the captain would in turn be instructing his helmsmen and telegraphing instructions to the machinists in our four engine cars . He wanted to bring the Aurora in as close as possible ...
... Keep her snug ! " Mr. Rideau barked at the men , and they locked their winches , trying to keep the gondola from falling farther . Now that it was a little below us , I could see inside . The pilot was sprawled on the gondola's floor ...
... 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 . " Well ...