An edition of Airborn (1997)

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Kenneth Oppel
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An edition of Airborn (1997)

airborn

  • 3.7 (6 ratings) ·
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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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1997

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Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2009, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2008, HarperTrophyCanada
in English - Digest pbk. ed.
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
Jan 26, 2005, Hodder Childrens Book, Hodder Children's Books, Hodder & Stoughton
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2004, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2004, EOS
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2004, Hodder Children's Books, Hachette Children's Group
in English
Cover of: Airborn
Airborn
2004, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Fils du ciel
Fils du ciel
2004, Editions Scholastic
in French
Cover of: airborn
airborn
1997, 1997
Cover of: airborn
airborn
1997, 1997

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OL25443184M
ISBN 10
0002005379

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