Airborn: A Printz Honor WinnerHarper Collins, 2009年9月22日 - 544 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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... airship had to register its flight plan before departing. If this vessel wasn't on the plan it was either a rogue or had drifted off course for some reason. “Any sign of the pilot yet, Mr. Cruse?” asked the captain. “No, sir.” “We'll ...
... airship Aurora. Please respond, Endurance!” Nothing. Probably some of our passengers were awake now. Most wouldn't have noticed the ship slowing and turning, but even through the soundproof walls and windows of their cabins and ...
... airships were visible, some newly airborne like us, pointing toward all corners of the globe. There was the passenger liner Titania bound for Paris, and over there, the Arctic Star headed over the top of the world with scheduled stops ...
... airship. If some of them were expecting a tilty meal, with their plates and forks slewing across the table, they were mistaken. The Aurora sailed without a bump or roll. You could stand a fountain pen on its end atop your table, and it ...
... airships as they came in and out of harbor, and they'd hire ornithopters to take them up for a good shot. But I hadn't seen anyone holding a camera. I wanted to find out what was going on, and since breakfast was winding down, I thought ...
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Kate | |
Hot Chocolate for | |
The Log of the Endurance | |
Szpirglas | |
Sinking | |
The Island | |
Nest | |
The Cloud | |
Rescue | |
The | |
Ship Taken | |
Airborne | |
Airborn | |
At Anchor | |
Bones | |
Shipshape | |
The One That Fell | |
Shipwrecked | |
Hydrium | |
About the Author | |
Praise | |
Credits | |
Copyright About the Publisher | |