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.
Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice..
The Physician is the first book in Noah Gordon\'s Dr.
How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival--medicine--makes a riveting modern classic.
Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world\'s most renowned physician, Avicenna.
Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia.
But as he matures, his strange gift--an acute sensitivity to impending death--never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.
Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine.
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
