Publisher's Synopsis
Herman Melville was a prominent author during the historic American Renaissance period. Melville was a prolific writer who produced classics in many different genres including Moby Dick, Typee, and Benito Cereno. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is a historical adventure novel that is set during the American Revolution. The book is loosely based off of a real-life person who had been a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill.