Du Bois, William Pene <br/><br/>
The twenty-one balloons / 
written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois. 
 - New York :  Puffin Books,  1947, 1975. 
 - 179 p. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0140320970 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Balloons--Fiction<br/>Voyages and travels--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Krakatoa (Indonesia)--Eruption, 1883