An edition of Airborn (1997)

Airborn

1st ed.
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An edition of Airborn (1997)

Airborn

1st ed.
  • 3.7 (6 ratings) ·
  • 38 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Publish Date
Publisher
EOS
Language
English
Pages
355

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Edition Availability
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

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Edition Notes

Published in
[New York]
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.O614 Ai 2004, PZ7.O614Ai 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
355 p. :
Number of pages
355

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3676984M
ISBN 10
0060531800, 0060531819
LCCN
2003015642
OCLC/WorldCat
53231167
Library Thing
193729
Goodreads
1734463
6620827

First Sentence

"Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes."

Work Description

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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