The Colony : The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai (Paperback)

from tobiejonzarelli

John Tayman, has marvelously succeeded in this sweeping history of the exiles of Molokai. It bears tragic witness to the banishment of the victims of Hansen's disease to a hostile isolated island beginning in 1866 with twelve men and women and one stowaway child and continuing for over a century....

from BookConcierge

The fascinating and horrifying true story of the "leper colony" at Kalawao (and later, Kalaupapa) Moloka'i. Obviously well researched.

from amaqueira

The way John Tayman writes this book it feels less like a history book and more like a novel. At the end you are in awe of how he was able to capture these events and emotionally attach you to the victims of this terrible disease.

from nittnut

On the surface, this book is about some people, who happened to contract Hansen's disease (leprosy) and how they were taken forcibly from their families and exiled. The deeper story is our human response to physical illness. Leprosy, prior to the 1950's was a terrible, disfiguring and painful dis...

from cathyskye

From 1866 through 1969, the Hawaiian and American governments banished nearly 9,000 leprosy sufferers into exile on a peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. After a smallpox epidemic wiped out a fifth of the Hawaiian population in the 1850s, leprosy was seen as the next huge threat, and dra...