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1 online resource (640 pages) |
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| Summary |
Now a major motion picture: Noah Gordon's beloved masterwork-read by millions in thirty-five countries In 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. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
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Digital content provided by Freading Ebook Service. |
| Subject |
Avicenna, 980-1037 -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Adventure fiction.
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Freading (Firm)
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Print version: Gordon, Noah. Physician. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1986. 067147748X (DLC) 86003834 //r98 |
| ISBN |
9781453263747 (e-pub) |
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9781453263747 |
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