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The twenty-one balloons
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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a giant balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually pic...
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a giant balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
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- Creator
- written and illustrated by William Pène Du Bois
- Other Title
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- 21 balloons
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, New York : Viking Press, 1975
- ©1975
- Physical Details
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- 179 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780670734412, 0670734411
- OCLC
- ocm50420236, ocm43321186
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947.
- Introduction -- Professor Sherman's incredible loyalty -- Hero's welcome is prepared -- Description of the Globe -- Unwelcome passenger -- New citizen of Krakatoa -- Gourmet government -- Moroccan house of marvels -- Airy-go-round -- Concerning the giant balloon life raft -- What goes up must come down
Subjects
- Hot air balloons -- Juvenile fiction.
- Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.
- Hot air balloons -- Fiction.
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- Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Fiction.
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