The Physician (Cole)

The Physician
(Cole)

by Noah Gordon
Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted one of the ten most-beloved books of all time, here is the first English-language digital edition of Noah Gordon s masterworkIn 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 medic…