There are minor, pleasing shades of the film Titanic , which crash-lands on an island that closely resembles a drawing in the old man's journal. As other plot lines develop, pirates attack the Aurora Matt's curiosity about the man's dying words is piqued a year later when the fellow's granddaughter Kate arrives on board, bearing his journal. In an exciting opening sequence, Matt rescues an injured old man flying solo in a stranded hot air balloon the man later dies, but not before telling Matt of "beautiful creatures" that he saw sailing through the air. Young Matt Cruse works aboard the elegant passenger airship Aurora In crisp, precise prose that gracefully conveys a wealth of detail, Oppel (the Silverwing Saga) imagines an alternate past where zeppelins crowd the skies over the Atlanticus and the Pacificus, and luxury liners travel the air rather than the sea (references to films by the Lumière "triplets" and various fashions suggest a very early 20th-century setting).
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