The twenty-one balloons
By: written and illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.
Series: Puffin Newbery library
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Balloons -- Fiction; Voyages and travels -- Fiction; Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883
Other titles: 21 balloons.
Description: 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.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947.