· The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, by John Tayman, pp, hardcover, $, ISBN, New York, N.Y., Scribner, Large Pacific waves and high sea cliffs sealed off the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. main page. The Colony The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai. The Colony The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai. John Tayman's book is a fascinating account of a little known bit of Hawaiian history and the disgraceful treatment of victims of a horrible disease as if they were criminals. Panicky over what was mistakenly believed to be a highly contagious disease, leprosy, the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii banished, or exiled, persons diagnosed (often mis-diagnosed) with the disease to the Kalaupapa Peninsula on Cited by: 8.
This morning, I finished John Tayman's "The Colony." Rarely is an important book this readable. Tayman is a superior writer, combining trenchant research with a story-teller's finely hewed skill, his book is a heart-stopper and mind-bender -- medical, social, political, religious, history stirred up in an accessible haunting, irresistable tome. The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, by John Tayman, pp, hardcover, $, ISBN, New York, N.Y., Scribner, Large Pacific waves and high sea cliffs sealed off the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. John Tayman's The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai is a journalistic history of the settlement at Kalaupapa on Molokai, which existed for over a century as the home of the "lepers of Molokai" (patients—or prisoners—who had been exiled and segregated by the Hawaiian government after being diagnosed with Hansen's.
the colony harrowing true story of exiles molokai john tayman The Colony - The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. John Tayman's book is a fascinating account of a little known bit of Hawaiian history and the disgraceful treatment of victims of a horrible disease as if they were criminals. Panicky over what was mistakenly believed to be a highly contagious disease, leprosy, the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii banished, or exiled, persons diagnosed (often mis-diagnosed) with the disease to the Kalaupapa Peninsula on Molokai. The colony: the harrowing true story of the exiles of Molokai by John Tayman tells the story of that strategy and its aftermath. Beginning in , the Hawaiian Board of Health completely separated patients with leprosy, both adults and children, from their families and exiled them to live in a settlement on Molokai called Kalaupapa.
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