MolokaiUniversity of Hawaii Press, 1999 M01 1 - 539 pages Father Damien, Dr. Newman, and a group of other courageous and selfless people struggle to offer hope and dignity to the inhabitants of a late-nineteenth-century leprosy colony. |
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