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Ranger Gull

The Air Pirate

Name: The Air Pirate
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 4fd04d58-97e3-9e99-9d92-f9139b747f38-pl-en
Price: 30.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Ranger Gull

Original publication: 1919
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 362
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
Translated from: English

Book summary

An adventure novel set in the near future, when immense airliners link Plymouth and New York in thirty hours. The narrator, Sir John Custance, heads the British Air Police and has just become engaged to Connie Shepherd, an actress adored by London audiences. Pirates with silent engines are plundering airliners over the Atlantic, and they kidnap Connie, who has left for New York that very evening. Disguised beyond recognition, Sir John follows their trail to the coast of Cornwall. A fast-paced story that blends investigation and aerial adventure.

The plot

An air pirate kidnaps a police chief’s fiancée. Sir John Custance heads the British Air Police. He gets engaged to Connie, a famous actress.

The world of the book

Giant airliners over the Atlantic. In the novel, huge airliners fly from Plymouth, England, to New York in thirty hours.

The author

Ranger Gull. After studying at Oxford, Ranger Gull became a journalist in London. He wrote for a major newspaper, the Daily Mail.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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