TY  - BOOK
AB  - Reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious, yet all were caught in a shared nightmare. The colony had little food, little medicine, and very little hope. Exile continued for more than a century, the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Nearly 9,000 people were banished to the colony, trapped by pounding surf and armed guards and the highest sea cliffs in the world. 28 live there still.--From publisher description.
AU  - Tayman, John.
CN  - RA644.L3
CN  - RA644.L3
CY  - New York :
DA  - c2006.
ID  - 310286
KW  - Leprosy
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2005047767-d.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2005047767-t.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005047767-s.html
N1  - "A Lisa Drew book."
N2  - Reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious, yet all were caught in a shared nightmare. The colony had little food, little medicine, and very little hope. Exile continued for more than a century, the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Nearly 9,000 people were banished to the colony, trapped by pounding surf and armed guards and the highest sea cliffs in the world. 28 live there still.--From publisher description.
PB  - Scribner,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2006.
SN  - 074323300X
SN  - 9780743233002
T1  - The Colony /
TI  - The Colony /
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2005047767-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2005047767-t.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005047767-s.html
ER  -