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John Tayman was interviewed about his book [The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai], published by Scribner. He described the leper colony on the remote island of Molokai ...

The leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai was a place of horror when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in 1873. The victims of leprosy lived in primitive ...