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    <body><![CDATA[Noah Gordon is my new favorite author. I read The Physician after I read The Last Jew. Both were phenomenal. <br/><br/>The Physician is long, but I read through it quickly. I could hardly put it down! The novel is set in the middle of the eleventh century. Gordon transports readers to another time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19286962">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Noah Gorgon's ability to transport you back into the dark ages is a result of talent and insightful research.<br/>This is a story of a young man born in London during the reign of King Knute and his transformation throughout his life to become Hakim, the Persian word for Physician. For a Christian,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/860209">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m a modern military history buff, and until I read this book I hadn’t had the slightest intrest in medieval social portraits. Well, Noah Gordon opened my eyes. I travelled through medieval Europe with Rob J. Cole (as I would later do with his descendant Shaman in America) all the way to Persia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33496911">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Überschätzt aber gut und lesenswert</strong><br/>	<br/>Dieses Buch ist die Geschichte eines Waisenjungen, der aufgrund glücklicher Umstände, einer besonderen Gabe und der Tatsache, dass er gnadenlos sein großes Ziel verfolgt zu einem der besten Ärzte des Mittelalters wird.<br/><br/>Im Alter von neu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40058755">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Londres, en l'an 1021. <br/><br/>Orphelin, Rob J. Cole, neuf ans, est recueilli par un barbier-chirurgien et devient son apprenti. Ensemble, ils sillonnent l'Angleterre. <br/><br/>C'est une époque où l'on brûle les sorcières, où la vie est dure et la mort vite venue... <br/><br/>Mais Rob ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67703941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All right, this book was lengthy yet I am not daunted and throughout the first 1/3, I was intrigued and entertained yet I must say I petered out through the last half. I got tired of it. I felt like the author was a good storyteller but that the meat and the literature of it was lost. On me. The sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68078345">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another historical novel I read. I simply like reading stories that are set in a different place and time. Gives insight in medical practises and developments both in Europe and Middle East, as well as the general culture in those places in medieval times. <br/>As for me personally, this book is ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73617456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating story and a hard-to-put-down book. Rob's character is strong, but he was human and also had his faults. His long worldly journey and conquering of obstacles is told well. I've never read a book set in this time period and Gordon's style of writing is engrossing. Peculiar, then...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39543284">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of the edition that I read had a drawing of the main character in a pose similar to full-on, bodice-ripping glory. Despite that, it was really good (and really, there's very little bodice ripping). The characters are well-developed, credible, and interesting. The only complaint is that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67909950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great adventure read, chronicling the lifetime of an English barber-surgeon in the early 11th century, as he travels to Persia to learn modern science and medicine.  Gordon has an excellent style, and while he has done an amazing amount of research for the writing of this book, my medievalist's eye ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60522756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is gritty, raw, and probably a very realistic look into life in the dark ages.  The dark ages were called that for a reason--lawlessness, hypocrisy, and religious confusion all contributed to the moral decline of people and leaders.  This book is about the life of a young boy and his pursu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60459856">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Die Welt des Mittelalters, der Bader und Gaukler, des Hungers und der Pest, aber auch des fanatischen Glaubens mit seiner Ungerechtigkeit ist der Hintergrund dieses mitreißenden Romans. Vor dieser Folie entwickelt sich ein abenteuerliches Leben: 1021 wird der 9-jährige Rob in London Waise. Sein Schicksal will, dass ihm Henry  Croft über den Weg läuft, und dieser Bader ihn als Lehrling mit sich nimmt. Von ihm lernt Rob die einfachsten medizinischen Griffe, aber auch Zirkusstücke wie das Jonglieren. Nach dem Tod des Baders dauert es nicht lange, bis Rob, der sich berufen fühlt, Medizin studieren möchte. Dazu muss er nach Isfahan in Persien. Dort will er bei dem Avicenna genannten berühmtesten aller Ärzte lernen. Die Mühen, die Gefahren, die Verkleidung als Jude ... sind  wesentliche Elemente dieses Weltbestsellers! <p> Noah Gordon ist 1926 in Worcester, Massachusetts, geboren. Nach dem Studium der Publizistik und Anglistik arbeitete er als wissenschaftlicher Redakteur beim Bostoner Herald. Bereits sein erster Roman &quot;Der Rabbi&quot; verhalf ihm zum Durchbruch. Es schließen weitere Erfolge wie &quot;Der Schamane&quot; und &quot;Der Medicus&quot; an! Vergangene Zeiten und ihr Lebensgefühl spannend und fesselnd aufzubereiten - das ist das Markenzeichen dieses großartigen Erzählers. <p> Man hätte hier wohl kaum eine bessere Wahl für den Interpreten treffen können: Christian Brückner, der berühmte deutsche Synchronsprecher, bringt genau das mit, was die Lesung dieses abenteuerlichen Romans aus dem Mittelalter braucht. Seine ruhige Stimme mit dem &quot;magischen Timbre&quot; erzählt dieses reiche Leben so faszinierend-sinnlich, dass nicht wenige Mühe haben werden, den CD-Player oder Kassettenspieler abzuschalten. Lesung, Spieldauer: ca. 600 Minuten, 8 CD. Auch als MC erhältlich. <p><em>-- culture.text</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've read. I loved it, especially the way it was written. It doesn't seem to follow a greater plot and didn't really reveal too much beforehand, which made it *not* seem like a typical (historical) novel, but rather a biography. That's what I think it rather is: a historical bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58474098">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in German years ago, so don't know how it would read in my native language (probably would seem a lot sillier). I did enjoy it though. Read it while I was selling bagels at the Reichstag. Perfect book to read while you are in the middle of doing other things.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Li a edição em português. Essa história da vida de um homem medieval e sua busca pelo conhecimento prende até o final. É um daqueles livros que termina deixando uma sensação de vazio, como se a história continuasse mas nunca fóssemos conhecê-la.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another favorite from my young adult reading days. I read the book in German. It is the fictional story of a physician / healer apprentice in the middle ages. I am a sucker for the middle ages... I might re-read this one in the future.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is absolutely one of the top ten best books I've ever read.  An absolutely amazing read!  From the back cover of my edition:<br/><br/>While shadows and ignorance ruled the Christian West ... Rob Cole was orphaned in London, learning the ways of the poor in disease-ridden eleventh century Engl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14766906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite historical fiction novels and there is so much interesting history regarding medicine. A very intriguing story and very readable. A great story-teller.]]></body>
    
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