Is the pilot raving and deluded in his final moments? 'Did you see them?' he asked me, his voice scratchy. For although Matt manages more or less single-handedly to rescue the distressed balloon and bring it on board the Aurora, he is too late to save the life of the injured pilot. It's the opening incident in a dramatic tale of discovery and adventure, exploration and piracy. Its running lights weren't on, which was odd. It was a hot-air balloon, hanging there in the night sky. I raised my spyglass again, and with the help of the moon, caught a glimpse. Because at first, all I noticed was a blackness where stars should have been. He loves the ship and he loves his job, and he's got a fair expectation of being made junior sailmaker soon.Īnd he's one of those people that adventures just happen to, so we shouldn't be surprised that it's on Matt's watch in the crow's nest one night that he spies something unusual, drifting in the night sky: Then I saw it. He's the cabin boy on board the luxury airship, the Aurora.

Here, with Kenneth Oppel’s masterpiece, you will definitely want to read it again.There's a great hero in this book. This is definitely not a book where you go and read it, and then never touch it again.

It has highly descriptive vocabulary, it is very interesting, and is just an amazing book overall. Can they manage to see those creatures? As said before, I highly recommend this book for people of all ages. On the trip, she and Matt become friends, and when their airship gets boarded by pirates, they are wrecked and are forced to land on a mysterious island, on the same coordinates that the balloonist said he had seen those creatures. Some time later, when the Aurora went on a trip with passengers, he meets the balloonist’s granddaughter, who boarded the Aurora to see if she could see the mystical creatures. One day on the Aurora, he met a dying balloonist who had hoped to cross the world alone, and the balloonist tells him of these wonderful creatures, who were as light as air, and were always in the sky. His own father had died on a similar airship, and he imagines himself as light as the airship, lighter than air. The main character is Matt Cruse, a cabin boy on the wealthy Aurora. For starters, I cannot tell you a single moment where I was bored, the book was full of action from start to finish. The book is an absolute masterpiece, and I highly recommend reading it. For example, with the way Kenneth Oppel describes Aurora, the airship, you can see the airship in your mind, flying in the sky. It is full of action and, with the way the author describes the scenes, you can see it in your head. Airborn by Kenneth Oppel is a wonderful book full of description and imagery.

Airborn the book