A New England farm boy fights at Bunker Hill, is captured and carried to England, escapes, and then spends nearly fifty years trapped in poverty in London before returning home in old age. His short narrative, first published in 1824, records the hunger, odd jobs and street life of the London poor as seen by a stranded American.
The forlorn first-hand account that Herman Melville turned into his novel Israel Potter. Download the free EPUB.