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"Populated by engaging characters, rich in incicdent, and vivid in historical detail." THE NEW YORKTIMES BOOK REVIEW In the eleventh-century London, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick--and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing--a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever....
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The Physician, Noah Gordon
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- Released
- 1987
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- Title
- The Physician
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Noah Gordon
- Publisher
- Fawcett Crest
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 627
- ISBN10
- 0449214265
- ISBN13
- 9780449214268
- Series
- Cole Family Trilogy
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Health & Medicine, Adventure, Love, Classics, American Literature, England, Great Britain, Middle Ages, Adapted for Film, Jews, London, Journey, Doctors, Orient, Persia, 11th Century
- First published
- 1986
- Original title
- The Physician
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- "Populated by engaging characters, rich in incicdent, and vivid in historical detail." THE NEW YORKTIMES BOOK REVIEW In the eleventh-century London, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick--and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing--a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever....