The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pène du Bois

[james_davis_nicoll]

How did Professor William Waterman Sherman, late of San Francisco, end up floating in the North Atlantic on a raft composed of the wreckage of a flotilla of balloons?

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Sherman Pène du Bois

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[naomikritzer]

I read this book as a kid (multiple times, because I owned a copy). As an adult I found out about the DeBoers diamond cartel and thought, "holy shit, the thing in The Twenty-One Balloons about diamonds was REAL????"