Project Gutenberg 2014-03-25 Public domain in the USA. 74 McAlister, Hugh The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirigible" by Hugh McAlister is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around David Ellison, a determined young man whose dreams of becoming an aviator are interrupted when he decides to leave prep school to support his family after his father's death in the Air Corps. Despite his sacrifices, David's passion for dirigibles drives him to seize an unexpected opportunity to join the crew of a giant airship, the Moonbeam, as an assistant pilot. The opening portion of the novel introduces us to David as he grapples with his decision to abandon college plans in favor of earning a living to help his family. His heartfelt farewell to his friends reveals his character as selfless and hardworking. As David receives news about the dirigible school, his excitement builds, and he resolves to pursue his aspiration of flying despite the obstacles he faces. The narrative sets the stage for David's journey toward a life-changing adventure aboard the Moonbeam, hinting at themes of friendship, ambition, and the excitement of exploration as the story unfolds toward its maiden voyage around the world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45208/45208-h/images/cover.jpg en Airships -- Juvenile fiction Voyages around the world -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 345620 345628 2024-09-19T04:40:26.308199 2023-09-19T15:54:54.136410 text/html text/html 344047 2014-03-25T08:43:34 text/html; charset=utf-8 190849 2014-03-25T08:43:46 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 223698 2024-09-19T04:40:31.508178 application/epub+zip 223120 2024-09-19T04:40:27.037198 application/epub+zip 205529 2024-09-19T04:40:26.676244 application/epub+zip 310408 2024-09-19T04:40:35.068130 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290199 2024-09-19T04:40:31.170211 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 272321 2022-09-20T15:58:40.528092 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299341 2024-09-19T04:40:25.602196 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 307884 2014-03-25T08:43:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 118246 2014-03-25T08:43:44 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 299071 2014-03-25T08:43:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 117102 2014-03-25T08:43:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 299065 2014-03-25T08:43:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 117080 2014-03-25T08:43:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21402 2024-09-19T04:40:35.200130 application/rdf+xml 19710 2024-09-19T04:40:26.766173 image/jpeg 2615 2024-09-19T04:40:26.720196 image/jpeg 198086 2024-09-19T04:40:26.339223 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog