Molokai

O. A. Bushnell

earliest edition we have, 1975 University Press of Hawaii, 1975 539 pages

Pacific classics ;

Molokai--one of the beautiful Hawaiian islands, but in the late nineteenth century, a name synonymous with a desolate leper colony. Kalaupapa, accessible only from the sea, was "The Given Grave," where victims of the dreaded disease were sent to die, exiled in a desperate attempt to halt the spread of this horror newly come to the islands. For the stricken there was no return, no treatment, no cure but the blessed re...

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Molokai edition · 1975 · University Press of Hawaii · 539 pages
Molokai paperback · Signet · 9780451024787

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