This book is about the author himself in this story, it is because he has been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extrao...
Five Union prisoners of war escape in a balloon from Richmond, Virginia, and land on an uninhabited island, where they begin to reconstruct a civilization.
The story begins with strange lights and sounds reported in the skies over Europe. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of a black flag atop the...