Project Gutenberg 2006-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 72 Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer) 1870 1944 Clouston, Joseph Storer The Man from the Clouds Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Man from the Clouds" by J. Storer Clouston is a novel written in the early 20th century, likely during the post-World War I period. The story begins with an unexpected and harrowing adventure involving an observation balloon crewed by Sub-Lieutenant Roger Merton and a confident navy man named Rutherford. After a mishap causes their balloon to ascend rapidly into the mist-filled sky, the narrative hints at themes of survival, fate, and unexpected encounters as Merton faces the perils of landing in enemy territory. At the start of the book, Merton and Rutherford are caught in their balloon, which breaks loose, propelling them into a foggy unknown above the North Sea. As they converse about their dire situation and the likelihood of a safe landing, both men struggle with the fear of what lies ahead—either a parachute jump or a fatal descent into the ocean. The narrative quickly shifts from their aerial predicament to Merton's lonely descent, as he ultimately lands in a clover field on what turns out to be a mysterious island. There, he encounters a fisherman who, alarmingly, advises him to speak English, sparking questions about the region's allegiances. This sets off a chain of events where Merton must navigate both local suspicions and the tension of a possible spying operation in the environment, laying the groundwork for a mix of intrigue and suspense throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 402703 402563 2024-10-04T12:12:28.404918 2023-10-05T04:11:18.939948 text/html text/html 402696 402556 2024-10-04T12:12:28.682915 2023-10-05T04:11:19.135962 text/html text/html 218423 2024-10-04T12:12:36.940912 application/epub+zip 224724 2024-10-04T12:12:31.591890 application/epub+zip 217826 2024-10-04T12:12:30.330913 application/epub+zip 403000 2024-10-04T12:12:40.866874 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 381263 2024-10-04T12:12:36.155874 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 336814 2022-09-05T05:43:43.027808 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356749 356660 2024-10-04T12:12:27.875970 2023-10-05T04:11:18.627959 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 356622 2020-12-27T00:40:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 134826 2020-12-27T00:40:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 356613 2020-12-27T00:40:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 134795 2020-12-27T00:40:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21071 2024-10-04T12:12:40.994841 application/rdf+xml 12760 2024-10-04T12:12:30.874894 image/jpeg 3761 2024-10-04T12:12:30.600912 image/jpeg 214009 2024-10-04T12:12:28.716949 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia