William Pene du Bois The Twenty-One Balloons
Format: Paperback Book. (Pre-owned. Good, crease on front cover)
Year Of Release: 1982.
Label: Yearling/Dell.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: BK1005
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Price: $0.95 [Out of Stock]
Description: 180 pages. The Newbery Award Winner for 1948. Professor William Waterman Sherman, a disillusioned schoolteacher, sails in a giant balloon over the Pacific, lands on the island of Krakatoa, and witnesses a stupendous explosion in which that notorious island blows up. When Professor Sherman is found adrift in the Atlantic clinging to the debris of twenty balloons, all America rocks with curiosity. Much of the story is based on complete truth--scientific principles behind nineteenth-century balloon inventions and the history of the amazing civilization found on Krakatoa. The rest, agrees the author, is absolute nonsense.
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Format: Paperback Book. (Pre-owned. Good, crease on front cover)
Year Of Release: 1982.
Label: Yearling/Dell.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: BK1005
Genres:
Price: $0.95 [Out of Stock]
Description: 180 pages. The Newbery Award Winner for 1948. Professor William Waterman Sherman, a disillusioned schoolteacher, sails in a giant balloon over the Pacific, lands on the island of Krakatoa, and witnesses a stupendous explosion in which that notorious island blows up. When Professor Sherman is found adrift in the Atlantic clinging to the debris of twenty balloons, all America rocks with curiosity. Much of the story is based on complete truth--scientific principles behind nineteenth-century balloon inventions and the history of the amazing civilization found on Krakatoa. The rest, agrees the author, is absolute nonsense.
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