Title: The twenty-one balloons
First published: 1965
Description: Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened. How did he end up with so many balloons . . . and in the wrong ocean?
Subjects: Ballooning, Balloons, Eruption, 1883, Fiction, Historical fiction, Hot air balloons, Inventions, Juvenile fiction, Krakatoa (Indonesia), Newbery Medal, Voyages and travels, Voyages around the world, Wealth, Eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia : 1883) fast (OCoLC)fst01353004, Newbery medal book, Newbery Medal books, Children's fiction, Balloons, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Children's stories, Influence
Places: Krakatoa (Indonesia)
People: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)