In the canon
Israel Potter
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1855
- Pages
- Pages 200
Melville dedicated the book to a piece of granite: His Highness the Bunker-Hill Monument, raised on the hill where a New England farm boy bled for a country that would spend fifty years forgetting he existed. Israel Potter is captured at sea and washed up in England, running secret messages in his boot heel to a Benjamin Franklin so charmingly stingy he confiscates the sugar and brandy from a guest's room while lecturing him on thrift.
He died the same day that the oldest oak on his native hills was blown down.
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