Israël Potter: ses cinquante années d'exil

Résumé

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. . . .