Shaman [electronic resource]
Gordon, Noah2012
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This New York Times Notable Book is a “sweeping historical drama” of a physician and his family on the Illinois frontier in the nineteenth century (The New York Times Book Review). Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The details of how their deaf son manages to become a physician also, despite his handicap, and the story of how the Cole family is sucked into the bloody vortex of the Civil War and survives, makes an exceptional reading experience.
Main title:
Shaman [electronic resource] / Noah Gordon
Author:
Gordon, Noah, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Cole
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
<DIV>Noah Gordon's international bestsellers have sold millions of copies and have won a number of awards, among them, in America, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon. </DIV>
ISBN:
9781453263754
Language:
English
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BRN:
2792985
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