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The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois
In 1883 Professor William Waterman Sherman, a retired school teacher, decides to get away from it all by taking off from San Francisco in a balloon so large he thinks he won’t have to come down for a year. But it's only a few days before he crashes on the island of Krakatoa, ending his Pacific adventure. He finds an improbable Utopia with a Restaurant Government there, just before it's blown to bits by the largest volcanic eruption in history. When the professor is fished out of the Atlantic a few weeks later, he has quite a story to tell.