The twenty-one balloons /

Du Bois, William Pene

The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. - New York : Puffin Books, 1986, c1947. - 179 p.

Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.



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Balloons--Fiction
Voyages and travels--Fiction


Krakatoa (Indonesia)--Eruption, 1883--Fiction