In the book The 21 Balloons a professor sets off from San Fransisco in a balloon house for a balloon flight around the world. When winds blow him off course seagulls puncture the balloon and sends him downward. Suddenly, a man in a suit uses a pistol to shoot the balloon and send it down even faster. When he goes ashore he finds out that he is on the island of Kroatia and that people actully li…