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The Physician

byNoah Gordon

Genres: Biography Historical fiction Humor Nonfiction

Eleventh-century England and Persia are the backgrounds of this story of an orphan named Rob Cole, who is apprenticed to a travelling barber-surgeon and, discovering in himself a gift for healing, decides to study medicine with the legendary Avicenna.

Language

English

Published on

01/01/2001

Pages

720

ISBN

9780751503890

Topics Persia Healing powers Middle ages Avicena Medicine Physicians Healers Historical fiction England Adventure

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