Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice. The Cole Trilogy: The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice. The Physician is the first book in New York Times-bestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. The New York Timesbestselling author’s historical saga of a family of healersfrom Dark Ages London to Civil War America to modern-day Boston. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. The New York Timesbestselling author’s historical saga of a family of healersfrom Dark Ages London to Civil War America to modern-day Boston. The Cole Trilogy: The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice. 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. 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.
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