The twenty-one balloons

by William Pène Du Bois

179 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1986 by Puffin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-030358-2

(1 review)

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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5 stars

Read with 7 year old daughter. Loved this book when I was a kid; it really made me think.

Subjects

Balloons -- Fiction
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883