The Cole family is drawn into the bloody vortex of the Civil War, and their determination to survive in the midst of wilderness and violence will stay with the reader long after the final page. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich his classical medical education. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. Robert Judson Cole, nineteenth-century descendent of the first Robert Cole, travels from his ravaged Scottish homeland, through the operating rooms of antebellum Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. Cole's journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival-medicine-make The Physician a riveting modern classic. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but by 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. As he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. The New York Times-bestselling author's historical saga of a family of healers-from Dark Ages London to Civil War America to modern-day Boston.
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