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| 100 | 1 | _aAppleton, Victor | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aTom Swift and his big dirigible |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-01-01 | ||
| 508 | _aDelphine Lettau, Greg Weeks, Cindy Beyer, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net | ||
| 520 | _a"Tom Swift and his big dirigible" by Victor Appleton is a juvenile adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on young inventor Tom Swift as he undertakes the construction of the largest all‑metal airship, the Silver Cloud, for the impatient industrialist Martin Jardine, while balancing family life and rising suspicions of sabotage. Alongside Tom are his wife Mary, his aging father, loyal friend Ned Newton, the exuberant Mr. Damon, and a dubious dwarf whose arrival hints at trouble. The opening of the story introduces Jardine’s bold commission: an all‑metal dirigible built of his new “oralum” alloy, able to carry fifty passengers and range ten thousand miles; Tom hesitates, then agrees despite vacation plans. A blaze in Tom’s House on Wheels—sparked by stored fireworks for Mary’s birthday—adds early tension, while work on the Silver Cloud proceeds amid Ned’s doubts about Jardine. Tom’s father faints from overwork and the mountain trip to Mt. Camon is postponed, then resumed; en route, a dwarf named James Chock appears with Jardine’s letter, is cautiously admitted to the works, later quits after clashing with Koku, and is flagged by a traveling marionette master as untrustworthy. A dramatic landslide sweeps the House on Wheels down a mountainside, but Tom steers them to safety; they reach a drought‑stricken Mt. Camon hotel, meet Mr. Damon, and encounter an erratic gardener, Cosso Tobini, whose hostility draws a manager’s rebuke as the scene closes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930 |
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| 653 | _aAdventure stories | ||
| 653 | _aSwift, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aAirships -- Juvenile fiction | ||
| 653 | _aForest fires -- Juvenile fiction | ||
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