![]() ![]() Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice. The Physician is the first book in New York Times-bestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. Rob Cole starts by learning how to become a barber-surgeon. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician describes the journey of an eleventh century Englishman to become a healer. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.Īrab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. Based on the best selling novel by Noah Gordon, THE PHYSICIAN tells the story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. ![]() An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Times).Ī child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. About the Author Noah Gordon has had outstanding international success. ![]()
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