Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile(1855)by Herman Melville(Original Version)

Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure. After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin Bits of this are fiction, and may be even more spectacular.
Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and...