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Absolutely STELLAR. Written in sometimes heart crushing details that are hard to read, & hard to believe, this is the comprehensive story of the leper colony that used to be on the island of Molokai, Hawaii, & is now part of the National Park Service. I WISH this book had actually arrived in TIME for me to read it & use it as a reference book for my final research paper on Hansen's Disease/Leprosy in my Microbiology class! That's what I ordered it for. This book is HAUNTING. It's the reminder of what was man's inhumanity to man, the challenges of epidemiology before the advent of modern medicines, the development & establishment of Carville in Louisiana, the first settlement for those with the disease on mainland USA, it's innovations & breakthroughs in the treatment & eradication of the disease, the innovations & advances in surgery to correct the crippling debilitations brought on by the disease.

For anyone that is interested in American history, this is a little known part of it. For anyone that's interested in medicine, this is a fascinating timeline.