Du Bois, William Pene <br/><br/>
The twenty-one balloons / 
William Pene duBois. 
 - New York :  Viking,  1947. 
 - 180p. 
<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>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Balloons--Fiction<br/>Voyages and travels--Fiction<br/>Krakatoa (Indonesia)--Eruption, 1883