Leviathan /
Westerfeld, Scott
Leviathan / Scott Westerfeld - New York Simon Pulse 2010 - 434p.
It is on the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employed genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross most unexpectedly, taking them aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy, to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
9781416971740
Fiction
Genetic engineering
Princes
Animals, Mythical
Sex role
Airships
Brothers and sisters
Adventure and adventurers
Orphans
Fiction WES-S
Leviathan / Scott Westerfeld - New York Simon Pulse 2010 - 434p.
It is on the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employed genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross most unexpectedly, taking them aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy, to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
9781416971740
Fiction
Genetic engineering
Princes
Animals, Mythical
Sex role
Airships
Brothers and sisters
Adventure and adventurers
Orphans
Fiction WES-S
