TRILOGÍA ROB J. COLE: El médico / The Physician (Series #1) (Paperback)

from konrad.katie

Whew, I should've reviewed this book closer to the date I actually finished it. My memory is fading. The Physician is a tome - a long, imaginative read with many vibrant characters and colorful settings. I was drawn to this book by it's oriental setting: Persia (be warned, you don't get there unt...

from janerawoof

This was a very good story of an orphan, Rob Cole, in 11th century England. He apprentices with a barber-surgeon, Barber, travelling all over England. He feels there is more than what Barber can teach him and heeds the call to be a physician after he KNOWS by just holding a sick person's hands wh...

from OscarWilde87

The Physician by Noah Gordon is set in the eleventh century and follows the life of Rob Cole, whose parents die right at the beginning of the novel. Trying to find a place, Rob becomes the apprentice of a barber-surgeon in London and learns to entertain crowds with magic tricks and juggling on th...

from Limelite

Not often does historical fact, atmosphere, and action get blended in such a seamless way, but Gordon has done it in this easy reading tale of a boy-to-man pilgrimage from orphan to physician in 11th C. Europe and Middle East. Robert Jeremy Cole (Rob), in order to achieve his dream of advancing f...

from richard.thurman

The Physician by Noah Gordon is an excellent work of historical fiction based in the eleventh century. Rob J. Cole is orphaned as a young child in London and apprenticed to a traveling barber/surgeon. Rob discovers he has a calling to be a healer, but the Church takes a dim view of this type of w...