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The leper / Steve Thayer.

Title
The leper / Steve Thayer.
Author
Thayer, Steve.
Publication
St. Cloud, Minn. : North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2008.

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389 p. : map; 24 cm.
Summary
After rescuing a healthy little girl from a French-German leper village during WWII, John Severson is diagnosed with leprosy and sent into forced quarantine at Louisiana's Witch Tree leprosarium. After escaping from Witch Tree, Severson winds up as the sheriff of Hawaii's Molokai leper colony where he becomes a crusader for its neglected citizens.
Subject
  • 1914-1918
  • Leprosy > Fiction
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Fiction
  • Veterans > United States > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0878392661 :
  • 9780878392667 :
OCLC
241059366
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library