180 pages
English language
Published Nov. 14, 1986 by Puffin Books.
The Twenty-One Balloons
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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.
Subjects
- Balloons -- Juvenile fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction
- Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Juvenile fiction