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(3.72) | 32 | Shaman is the prize-winning second volume of Noah Gordon's celebrated Cole trilogy. It is as great a reading experience as The Physician. 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.… (more) |
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The Spirit of Des Moines had sent signals ahead as it approached the Cincinnati depot in the coolness of dawn, detected by Shaman first as a delicate trembling barely perceived in the wooden station platform, a pronounced shivering that he felt clearly, then a shaking. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions Shaman is the prize-winning second volume of Noah Gordon's celebrated Cole trilogy. It is as great a reading experience as The Physician. 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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ŠAMAN je obiteljska saga epskih razmjera, živopisan prikaz dvojice liječnika iz obitelji Cole, žena koje oni vole, brutalnog ubojstva i naglog razvoja medicine do kojeg dolazi nakon mračnih stoljeća neznanja. -------------------------------------- BLOOD AND BRAVERY,
TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH Indian country - the wide-open prairie of frontier Illinois - and the war-torn fields of the Civil War are settings for this powerful epic of nineteenth-century America. From half a world away, Dr. Rob J Cole comes to the forbidding Great Plains to pursue his medical destiny. Ahead of him are the terrible trials of a white man standing alone in hostile territory ... and acts of such unspeakable violence he will never forget them. Yet Rob J goes on to find love with a passionate pioneer wife ... and to becomeone family with her strong son, who fights valiantly for the South in the Civil War. And when Rob and Sarah's own son, Shaman, grows to manhood, he too becomes heir to the proud tradition of medicine, battling different but equally staggering odds. Sweeping across decades of change and conflict, growth and loss, this majestic saga brims with medical authenticity and hte tumult of America in the making. | |
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