Colony The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

Name: Colony The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
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ISBN: 9780743233002

ISBN-10: 074323300X

ISBN-13: 9780743233002

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Tayman

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In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony 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. In 1866, twelve men and women and one small child were forced aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to a natural prison on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two weeks later, a dozen others were exiled, and then forty more, and then a hundred more. 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,…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface



Run (Population 1,143)


Scattered Seeds (Population 0)


Almost-Island (Population 0)


""A Kind of Colony"" (Population 13)


Order (Population 106)


Ready to Believe (Population 214)


A Far Different Position (Population 385)



Rush Slowly (Population 749)


""Be Ambitious and Bold"" (Population 742)


Escape (Population 673)


The Likes of Us (Population 824)


Strange Objects (Population 632)


Human Soil (Population 680)


""A Strange Place to Be In"" (Population 1,144)



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