OL19337W Page_number_confidence 95.45 Pages 442 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200927150443 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 295 Scandate 20200924102027 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780060850548 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:darkwing0000oppe:epub:ffd7c0dd-0ad7-4517-8a77-3b7e0e5ce18a Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier darkwing0000oppe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1ck7sb8v Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780060850548Ġ060850558 Lccn 2007007432 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA19308 Openlibrary_edition 1 2008 by Kenneth Oppel (Author), Keith Thompson (Illustrator) 100 ratings Related to: The Silverwing Trilogy See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 9.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 16.08 13 Used from 14.31 6 New from 27.99 1 Collectible from 32.99 Paperback 16.47 11 Used from 16. Oppel writes with keen insight and empathy about the condition of being “other” in the context of a richly plotted, fast-paced story that-though sometimes too heavily anthropomorphized-is captivating reading from beginning to end.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:04:16 Associated-names Thompson, Keith Boxid IA1947202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Clearly the world is poised on the brink of remarkable change, and the future belongs to these two. Dusk’s real nemesis, however, is a beast (a “felid”) called Carnassial, who is the first of his kind to be carnivorous, and like Dusk, is shunned by his own. Predictably, the others regard him as a mutant to be shunned-all but his father, who wisely considers his son’s differences as gifts.

Only Dusk, youngest son of the colony’s leader, has made an evolutionary leap not only can he fly, he can also see at night, using echo vision. In this ambitious new stand-alone fantasy, he turns the clock back 65 million years to imagine the world of the bats’ earliest ancestors, which he calls “chiropters.” These tree-dwelling creatures are flightless, using their wings (which they call “sails”) to glide through the air, from tree to tree. In his Silverwing series Oppel spun a contemporary fantasy about the world of bats.

Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel