The Physician - Noah Gordon
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Literature
An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in an adventurous and inspiring tale (Library Journal)., 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 worlds 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 New York Times best-selling author Noah Gordons Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and
