Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundr. This is the kind of classic writing that can be enjoyed by all ages. Read 2,048 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. And with its cast of larger-than-life characters, it was just made for our full cast treatment.

Reminiscent of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs-with a touch of Robert Louis Stevenson-this is adventure writing at its finest. You'll love the characters, and the story has the drive and verve of a Saturday morning serial with. PublishDateText 09/2006 otherFormatIdentifiersĪn incredible swashbuckling adventure, set in a world where great airships ply the skies and there are unknown lands and strange creatures still to be discovered. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages 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. Summary Matt Cruse, having enrolled in the Airship Academy, has been stationed on the Flotsam, an old cargo ship that serves as his training vessel, and captained by Captain Tritus. 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. Skybreaker is the second book in the Airborn series by Kenneth Oppel. Airborn: Matt Cruse Series, Book 1 (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen). After the incident, he meets with Kate de Vries, and is saddened to hear that Kate will soon return to Lionsgate City. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. Summary Matt Cruse is piloting an aerocrane for the France's Celestial Tower where he narrowly survives a terrorist attack by the Babelites, a group of people who are opposed to humans reaching the heavens. 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. 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.

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. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. 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.

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