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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