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by O. A. Bushnell

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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 leper colony.

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Important places: Moloka'i, Hawai'i, USA; Hawai'i, USA
Original language: English

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS: 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
LCC: PZ4 .B979 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
BISAC: FIC FICTION Historical General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 2
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Published: 1960
Genres: Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS: 813.54
LCC: PZ4 .B979

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