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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Kenneth Oppel. CONTENTS 1 SHIP'S EYES 1 2 UP SHIP ! 24 3 KATE 41 4 HOT CHOCOLATE FOR TWO 58 5 THE LOG OF THE ENDURANCE 73 6 SZPIRGLAS 90 7 SINKING 109 8 THE ISLAND 120 9 BONES 134 10 SHIPSHAPE 152 11 THE ONE THAT FELL 167 12 SHIPWRECKED ...
Kenneth Oppel. SHIP'S EYES S ailing 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 ...
... ship . The lookout's job was to watch for weather changes and for other ships . Over the Pacificus , you didn't see much traffic , though earlier I'd caught the distant flicker of a freighter , ploughing the waves toward the Orient ...
... ship's pulse slow as the propellers cut back . When you've been aloft a long time you can almost predict the ship's every movement through your own skin and sinew , like you're joined together . I heard the captain shouting out the ...
... ship , from the control car , the officer quarters , and the luxurious passenger decks near the bow all the way back to the cargo bays and crew quarters in the stern . Normally after my watch , I'd head back to my cabin for sleep . But ...