The Physician
The Physician: The Cole Trilogy, Book 1
English | October 25, 2017 | ASIN: B076HXPRBB | MP3@96 kbps | 24h 41m | 0.99 GB
Author: Noah Gordon
Narrator: Richard Higgins
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 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 New York Times best-selling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.
