Israel Potter - His Fifty Years of Exile (Unabridged)

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.