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The Moon's a Balloon is a best-selling memoir by British actor David Niven (1910–1983), published in 1971. [1] It details his early life. There have been several editions and many translations of the book over the years. Niven followed it with a sequel, Bring on the Empty Horses, in 1975.
The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 by the Viking Press and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads him to discover Krakatoa , an island full of great wealth and fantastic inventions.
The book is about five children each of whom get a balloon from Ruti's mother — a blue balloon for Ruti, yellow for Ron, purple for Sigalit, green for Uri and red for Alon. During the book, all the children's balloons burst, with the exception of Alon's, which the wind blew out of the children's reach.
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's ...
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on eight critic reviews with five being "rave" and one being "positive" and two being "mixed". [ 5 ] Leyla Sanai in The Independent 's writes " Levels of Life uses the pioneering of balloon flight and the development of aerial photography as metaphors for the soaring heights ...
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In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]
William Sherman Pène du Bois [a] (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of books for young readers. He is best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April 1947 by Viking Press, for which he won the 1948 Newbery Medal.