![]() ![]() Matt and Kate's main adversary, a pirate captain named Szpirglas, is also a well-rounded and interesting character, not your cardboard cutout pirate by any means. He gets dragged into trouble by a wealthy young passenger named Kate, who is herself quite plucky, especially for her historical time period. The cabin boy, Matt Cruse, is brave and resourceful. Airborn also features sightings of a species of winged cats, undiscovered mammals that live over the ocean, another alternate reality that fascinates the author. The story is basically an alternate reality, set in the early 1900s, exploring what might have been, if airships had become a primary mode of transportation. The protagonist's ship, the Aurora, is a luxury passenger vessel that uses a lighter-than-air gas to fly, instead of floating on the water. First of all, the ships in the story are airships, like the Hindenburg. Airborn is in many ways a classic sea-faring swashbuckler of a novel, with a plucky cabin boy, a brave captain, ruthless pirates, terrifying storms, and tragic shipwrecks. So I picked up a book that I had been meaning to read: Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. ![]() On my trip to the Caribbean, it seemed fitting to read a book about pirates. ![]()
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