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The Twenty-One Balloons
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| Author(s): | William Pène du Bois |
| Illustrator(s): | William Pène du Bois |
| Publisher(s): | The Viking Press, Inc. |
| Year Published: | 1948 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Age Range: | Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 180 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| LCCN: | 47002533 |
| OCLC: | 936716850 |
| Award(s): | |
Description
Professor William Waterman Sherman left San Francisco on August 15th, 1883 with the intention of flying across the Pacific Ocean. He was picked up three weeks later in the Atlantic Ocean clinging to the wreckage of a platform which had been flown through the air by twenty balloons. His only stop between San Francisco and the Atlantic Ocean was a brief sojourn on the island of Krakatoa, which blew up just after he left it in what is considered to be the most violent eruption of all time.
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