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The Physician - The Cole Trilogy
Noah Gordon
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The Physician - The Cole Trilogy
Noah Gordon
Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted ?one of the ten most-beloved books of all time,? here is the English-language edition of Noah Gordon?s masterworkIn eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift?an acute sensitivity to impending death?never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world?s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival?medicine?makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in Noah Gordon?s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.
768 pages
Medien | Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken) |
Erscheinungsdatum | 4. September 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781453271100 |
Verlag | Open Road Media |
Seitenanzahl | 768 |
Maße | 216 × 142 × 47 mm · 907 g |
Sprache | Englisch |
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