Hurricane

Description for HURRICANE by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall:

These are the people who live on the small island of Manukura in the South Pacific, and the story of a devastating hurricane that hits the island...

DR. KERSAINT, French medical officer of the islands.

FATHER PAUL, THE KIND-HEARTED PRIEST, WHO TRULY LOVES THE ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE

CAPTAIN NAGLE, an English captain and trader who sails the South Seas

DE LAAGE, the French consul, a fair but rigid government official

MADAME DE LAAGE, his beautiful and sympathetic wife

TERANGI, a decidedly superior young islander who has been unjustly imprisoned, and now has escaped to return to Manukura to try to flee with his wife and child