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The Twenty-one balloons
Title:
The Twenty-one balloons
Author:
Du Bois, William Pène, 1916-1993
ISBN:
9780140320978
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1986, c1947.
Physical Description:
179 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Puffin Newbery library.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947.
Abstract:
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.
Added Title:
21 balloons.