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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Passarola Rising
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'Alexandre Lourenço recounts his daring adventures with his older brother, the inventor Bartolomeu, aboard their wildly innovative airship, the Passarola, or "great bird." After finding rich patrons in Lisbon to fund Bartolomeu's flight obsession, they make their successful maiden voyage on the vacuum-pumped Passarola in 1731 in the presence of His Majesty João V. However, the brothers run afoul of Cardinal Conti's Inquisition and flee to France, where they are championed by the Enlightenment regime of Louis XV, as long as their airship can serve his purposes. Commissioned by the Académie des Sciences to measure distances to the polar circle, the brothers set out on a harrowing trek into the extreme northern regions, where Alex is beset by hallucinations of a splendid phantom city, and they must turn back. They cannot offer indisputable proof of what they saw during their exploration, so, disheartened they separate—Alex back to Brazil, to lead a mediocre existence, and Bartolomeu off to incredible adventures in India and beyond.'

Source: Publisher's Weekly.

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Karen
  • Steampunk Note: This work centres around a steampunk flying ship in an eighteenth century world. Interestingly, the novel does not take British culture as its primary inspiration, unlike many other steampunk works, instead dealing with Brazilian, Spanish, and French culture and history.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2006 .
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      Extent: 244p.
      ISBN: 067004296X
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      Australia,
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      Penguin ,
      2007 .
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      Extent: 239p.p.
      ISBN: 9780143006121
Alternative title: O Voo Da Passarola
Language: Portuguese
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      Portugal,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Ambar ,
      2006 .
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      Extent: 179p.p.
      ISBN: 9724310647, 9789724310640

Works about this Work

Getting It Right the First Time Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 2 no. 6 2007; (p. 16-17)

— Review of Affection : A Novel Ian Townsend , 2005 single work novel ; Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel ; Feather Man Rhyll McMaster , 2007 single work novel ; The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Passarola Rising Irving Malin , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Review of Contemporary Fiction , Fall vol. 26 no. 3 2006; (p. 146)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
The Peers Review : Bright Diners Sue Williams , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Limelight , May 2006; (p. 24)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Perfectly Placed Katharine England , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 April 2006; (p. 10)

— Review of Out of Place Jo Dutton , 2006 single work novel ; Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Getting High Judith Armstrong , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 280 2006; (p. 42)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Man of the Flying Ship Jennifer Moran , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 February 2006; (p. 4)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Following in Sinbad's Footsteps James Ley , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 February 2006; (p. 26)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
[Review] Passarola Rising Becky Edwards , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 85 no. 7 2006; (p. 48)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Despite High Hopes and Hot Air, a Historical Fable Fails to Take Off Isabel McIntosh , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 12-13)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition Ian McFarlane , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 March 2006; (p. 12)

— Review of Passarola Rising Azhar Abidi , 2006 single work novel
Dreams of Flying Angela Bennie , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 February 2006; (p. 20-21)
A Writer's Duty to Spread His Wings Jane Sullivan , 2006 single work biography
— Appears in: The Age , 11 February 2006; (p. 26-27)
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