No Footprints in the Sand - A Memoir of Kalaupapa
by Henry Kalalahilimoku Nalaielua, Sally-Jo Keala-o-anuenue Bowman
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Author: Henry Kalalahilimoku Nalaielua, Sally-Jo Keala-o-anuenue BowmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-15
ISBN: 0977914305
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Watermark Publishing
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Book Review: Hope and courage in adversity
Summary: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (3/07)
This is an amazing story. It is Henry's story. Henry Nalielua, diagnosed with Hansen's disease at the age of ten, was branded leprous. "No Footprints in the Sand" is an important memoir. It tells of the journey that took Henry from a sugar plantation community on the Island of Hawaii to Kalaupapa, a remote settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Nalaielua's story is inspiring. Even in exile, with lifelong medical and physical challenges and isolation from his family, he faced life with hope, perseverance, courage, and humor. Henry learned to draw and paint. He became an artist. Henry loved music and mastered the ukulele and upright bass. He became a musician. Henry's mind was sharp. He was determined and quick-to-learn. He became an historian. Henry has also served on numerous public agency advisory boards. When the facility at Kalaupapa was named a National Historic Park, Henry became a guide for park visitors. He still resides at Kalaupapa
Co-author Sally-Jo Bowman worked determinedly over a period of years to help bring Henry's story to publication. She first met Henry in 1995, when he helped her with on-site research at Kaluapapa for several magazine articles about the Hansen's disease colony.
Henry's story is unforgettable. It is told with intimacy and openness. "No Footprints in the Sand" is a heartwarming memoir that will inspire anyone facing adversity, long term illness, or needing encouragement. This was a very positive reading experience.
Summary of No Footprints in the Sand - A Memoir of Kalaupapa
The sand beach that stretches nearly a mile beyond the Kalaupapa wharf was always laid smooth by the tide. Hansen's disease plays havoc with feet, ulcerating them, crippling them. Such feet walk poorly. And in sand they cannot walk at all. Most patients in Henry's time left no footprints in that golden sand.When Henry Nalaielua was diagnosed with Hansen?s disease in 1936 and taken from his home and family, he began a journey of exile that led him to Kalaupapa?the remote settlement with the tragic history on the Hawaiian island of Moloka?i. During its century as a virtual prison, more than 8,000 people were exiled to Kalaupapa, until the introduction of sulfone drugs in the 1940s. Today fewer than 20 patients remain.
This is Henry?s story?an unforgettable memoir of the boy who grew to build a full and joyous life at Kalaupapa, and still calls it home today. No Footprints in the Sandis one of only a few memoirs ever shared with the public by a Kalaupapa patient. Its intimacy and candor make it, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, ?a rare and precious human document.? Nalaielua?s story is an inspiring one; despite exile, physical challenges and the severing of family ties, he has faced life?as an artist, musician and historian?with courage, honesty, hope and humor.
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