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Victor Appleton II

Tom Swift & His Airship Hardcover – Facsimile, October 1, 1992

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Just as it was originally published in 1910, here is the story of Tom Swift's ingenuity, which prompts him to build an airship. When Tom tests the ship with a trial run, something goes wrong and there is a smash-up in mid-air!

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8 - 11 years
Print length

216 pages
Language

English
Grade level

Preschool - 6
Dimensions

5.44 x 1.19 x 7.66 inches
Publisher

Applewood Books
Publication date

October 1, 1992
ISBN-10

1557091773
ISBN-13

978-1557091772
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Applewood Books; Facsimile edition (October 1, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1557091773
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1557091772
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 11 years
Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 6
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 1.19 x 7.66 inches

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Great addition to my library

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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Great addition to my library. This is a book that young readers, my grandkids, will continue to enjoy. This is a good clean read.

Tom Swift Takes a Jules Verne Type Trip

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2014

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Tom Swift and his Airship is the third book in the Tom Swift series and the first one with a vehicle that’s somewhat out of the ordinary. So far Tom has had a motorcycle and a motorboat. Not exactly thrilling stuff for a modern reader but then again we don’t live in 1910. To my disappointment the villains of this story are the same villains in the previous two books. But wait you say, didn’t Tom have the crooks arrested and sent to jail. Yup, but they immediately escaped and inexplicably went back to Shopton to rob the towns bank. This is a gang that seems incredibly flexible in their crimes. In the first book they were patent thieves, in the second book they are diamond thieves and now bank robbers. Thanks to Tom’s idiotic red headed nemesis, Andy Folger, Tom is accused of the crime and a $5000 reward is offered for information leading to his arrest. However, Tom, Wakefield Damon and John Swift (an aeronaut introduced in the previous book) have already left for an extended test of their new airship.

It takes a while for the story to get going but I would say this is the most exciting of the first three books. Once the trio get going in the ‘Red Cloud’ the story takes on a very Jules Verne type feel. This book was written when flight was just in its infancy so I have to give the writer credit for creating a rather inventive vehicle. The ‘Red Cloud’ is a plane/balloon hybrid capable of taking off like a conventional airplane or moving straight up and hovering like a balloon. The balloon also gave them the ability to stay aloft for days on end and switch of the engine if need be. Just as in a Verne novel they experienced several atmospheric difficulties and at one point are fired on by a town eager to claim the $5000 reward.

The Tom Swift books are generally intelligently written although somewhat campy but there is one part near the end the is a coincidence of such immeasurable magnitude that I have to call foul. It’s also ridiculous that the very large “Red Cloud’ could crash land on a building and not alert the people inside. The books are very formulaic but they’re quick breezy reads and mostly good for young kids. There are some unfortunate and completely inadvertent moments of racism but those are simply signs of the times. In fact compared to contemporary books of the early 1900’s the Tom Swift series would be seen as quite progressive. Of the first three books this one would be my favorite but hopefully we’ve seen the last of Anson Morse and his gang and the fourth book won’t be another repeat just with a different vehicle.

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Robert D Taylor Jr

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021

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Great story

Keith R. Ghormley

this is pretty simple fun

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017

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For a boy's adventure book written in 1910, this is pretty simple fun. We're only 7 years after Kitty Hawk, after all, and airplanes are cutting edge excitement. It's interesting to see how the author gets some things wrong (there is no such thing as a secret gas that you can add to a tank so that the more you add, the lighter the tank and greater the lift), but the point of these books was inspiration and adventure, not scientific accuracy. As a book of it's time, there is also some incidental racial stereotyping; not done in a mean-spirited way, but it does jar our modern sensibilities. This is the stuff of cliffhanger thrills: will our hero come through??!! (Yes, the author calls Tom "our hero" at times ...)

BEST SERIES OF BOOKS EVER!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

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I was given the Tom Swift books back in the 50's & 60's and I read them all and enjoyed them and now I can gat them on my pad. I look forward to reading them all over again. This set of books should be read by everyone!

Tom Swift books are old fashioned but of interest to someone old like me.

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2018

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I read the Tom Swift books when I was in elementary school. I enjoy rereading them on my Kindle.

a classic tale from my great grand parents time

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015

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a classic tale from my great grand parents time. When airships were the "Future" and blood and gore were much less of a selling point.

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2014

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Timeless book that expands the imagination of all ages.

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