Shaman by Noah Gordon

Shaman by Noah Gordon

Shaman is the prize-winning second volume of Noah Gordon's celebrated Cole trilogy. It is as great a listening experience as The Physician. A New York Times Notable Book.

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 listening experience.

Noah Gordon has had tremendous worldwide success, with his trilogy The Physician, Shaman, and Issues of Choice selling more than eight million copies in Germany alone. The James Fenimore Cooper Award for Shaman was given to him by the Society of American Historians as the greatest historical book of 1991/1992. He was also named Writer of the Year by the Bertelsmann Book Club's readers, and he won the Silver Basque Award for Spain's best-selling novel twice, in 1992 and 1995. The Rabbi, a previous novel, spent 26 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Noah Gordon resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife.