professor William Waterman Sherman Just Wants To Be Alone. So He Decides To Take A Year Off And Spend It Crossing The Pacific Ocean In A Hot-air Balloon The Likes Of Which No One Has Ever Seen. But When He Is Found After Just Three Weeks Floating In The Atlantic Among The Wreckage Of Twenty Hot-air Balloons, Naturally, The World Is Eager To Know What Happened. How Did He End Up With So Many Balloons . . . And In The Wrong Ocean?
winner Of The Newbery Medal
children's Literature
this Newbery Medal Winner Was Written In 1947 And Definitely Has The Look And Feel Of Another Era. Professor Sherman Wants To Retire From Teaching Math And Travel By Balloon For A Whole Year. His Balloon, The Globe, Rose Quickly And Is Carried From San Francisco Out Over The Ocean. Sea Gulls Fighting Over Food On The Top Of His Balloon Punctured It, And Professor Sherman Plummets To The Legendary Island Of Krakatoa. How He Ended In The Atlantic In A 20-balloon Contraption After Krakatoa Exploded Is What Kept A Nation Transfixed Until He Could Tell His Story-but Only To The Western American Explorers Club. Numerous Drawings By The Author Accompany The Story To Help Kids Visualize The Wide Range Of Exotic Inventions That Are An Integral Part Of Life On Krakatoa.
Categories:
- Travel
- Asia
- Indonesia
- General
- Indonesia
- Asia
Publisher : Puffin Books
Author : Pene du Bois, William
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :1986-05-06
Number Of Pages : 192
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0140320970
ISBN-13 : 9780140320978
Item weight : 0.35 lb
Dimensions : 0.5 in x 5 in x 7.7 in
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