Noah Gordon
Paperback | Pages: 720 pages Rating: 4.37 | 35274 Users | 1926 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Physician |
| ISBN: | 0751503894 (ISBN13: 9780751503890) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Cole Family Trilogy #1 |
| Setting: | London, England Matlock,1012(United Kingdom) |
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In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick—and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing—a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.Present Of Books The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Noah Gordon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 720 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2001 by Little, Brown Book Group (first published August 7th 1986) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Medieval. Adventure. Health. Medicine. Novels |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 35274 Users | 1926 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy #1)
Historical-fiction adventure travelogue explores 11th century relationship of three major religions. It's a page turner.This was a Goodreads recommendation for me based on my preference for good historical novels that involves a journey filled with experiences and adventure and how these experiences affects the traveler. Set in the 11th Century it chronicles the life of young Rob Cole. Orphaned at nine years of age, he is apprentice to a travelling barber-surgeon (a snake-oil salesman). Rob is with the barber for years, travelling the width and breadth of England, peddling his cure-all and learning all he can of
I love historical fiction. I love to learn about religion in historical fiction. I loved this book!This book takes place during the 11th century in Europe. It is about a Christian man who disguises himself as a Jew in order to go to a Muslim school of Medicine in the Middle East. It was so interesting to learn how these three major religions interacted with each other during that time in history.There is one problem with the book though: there is a lot of sexually explicit content. Since this
DNF page 70 of 618.I was sick of juggling balls. Where are the guts? The blood? The everything?I loved the movie, though.But they have nothing to do with each other.
The Physician can easily be ranked as one of the most racist, prejudicial, erroneous, and contradictory novels, yet to be written on the East (the Others). Islam and Persia are grotesquely sexualized. Domes on the mosques are described as body parts. Inappropriate sexuality is described as acceptable, desirable, very sensible, to the Persians, when the king recalls a childhood memory with a tone, frighteningly close to fondness (380). One would question the authors motives in making the King so
ETA In honour of the upcoming movie, have a link to its first teaser trailer: right here. So... if you're still pondering to read this, why not now/soon and watch the movie later this year ;)/ETA When I read this book for the first time years ago, I LOVED it all in caps. Wait, did I say years? Make that decades... yes, I think I read this for the first time about 20 years ago. Wow. Wow. I need to let that sink in for a moment. 20 years. Wow.Anyhow. What I remembered about this book, apart from
4.5* It took several chapters for the captivating and superb story to emerge within these 768 pages. Although the beginning of the book had some interesting events, it tended to drag on with the same theme. Approximately half way into the book it came alive and so begins the arduous adventure of the physician barber Rob J. Cole. Set in the 11th century, Cole is left an orphan at 9 years of age, while his siblings are taken in by other families from British villages not far from his own home.
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