Cole Family Trilogy #2

Chamán

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Escocés y miembro de una familia que ha practicado la medicina a lo largo de generaciones, Rob J. Cole debe emigrar por razones políticas a las nuevas tierras de América. Tras trabajar en Boston con el eminente cirujano Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cole partirá rumbo al Oeste, hacia un territorio que los colonos todavía no han podido arrebatar a los indios sauk, y donde le esperan las experiencias más intensas de su vida profesional y personal. Sigue así la trepidante saga de la familia Cole, que Noah Gordon había iniciado con la publicación de El médico y que tiene en Chamán una excelente continuación.

768 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1992

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April 17,2025
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Cuando decidí leer el libro Chaman, el segundo libro de la trilogía de la familia Cole me imaginaba una secuela en donde continuaba en el siglo XI y continuaba la historia tal vez con los hijos del Dr Cole establecidos en Escocia; mi sorpresa es que la historia brinca hasta el siglo XIX con un descendiente del Dr Cole llamado también Robert J. Cole que llega de Escocia a los Estados Unidos; el libro abarca tanto la vida del Dr proveniente de Escocia como posteriormente de su hijo que a pesar de las adversidades que le presenta la vida consigue su sueño de ser Dr. La novela se lleva a cabo en una etapa histórica en Estados Unidos y detalla varios acontecimientos como la colonización de las partes centrales del país, el ataque que sufrieron los nativos por parte de los colonizadores y la Guerra de Secesión.
April 17,2025
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Lo leí hace mucho tiempo. Lo recuerdo como uno de los mejores libros que he leído
April 17,2025
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Cada vez me gusta más esta trilogía. Anciosa por saber qué sorpresa me depara el último
April 17,2025
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Patiko istorinės detalės. Galbūt tai nėra stiprus istorinis romanas, bet mano žinios apie JAV pilietinį karą kuklios, tad visai užteko knygoje esančių trupinių.
April 17,2025
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This is the second book of a trilogy about the Cole family. One thing that's unusual is that the main characters in this book are several generations removed from Rob J. in the first book of the series, "The Physician". I really love how this author writes. He pretty much ropes you in within the first couple of pages of the book and just never lets you go. And it's not that there is lots of action in this book to interest the reader. But the author makes you care about the characters from the start. It is obvious that the author has done his research. He knows how medicine was practiced in the 19th century, what the political climate was before, during and after the Civil War. He also has done research on how the Native American people were treated back then, and it's not a pretty picture.
This book features 2 of the Cole family members. Rob J. who has immigrated to the United States from Scotland, and his son, also named Rob J. , but who acquires the nickname of Shaman. The story starts with grownup Shaman, and then switches seamlessly to Shaman's father, Rob J. who is a physician with the gift of being able to feel the life essence of his patients by holding their hands. This is an ability that has been passed down (genetically?) through the family, occasionally missing a generation. So much of the book is about the older Rob J and how he ends up settling in Illinois and his life there as a doctor. He marries a widow with a little boy and then Shaman comes along. Shaman comes down with scarlet fever and ends up losing his hearing. It was pretty interesting to see how they made him stop all sign language(taught to him by an Indian shaman)so that he would be forced to speak in order to be able to communicate with people other than his family. Although I have my doubts that a deaf person would have actually been able to become a doctor back then, I still enjoyed how the author described the different ways that doctors practiced medicine and how so many people died just because of unclean habits by doctors.
This was a pretty lengthy book, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical fiction.
April 17,2025
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No tan mal, ni tan bien. Empecé con bastante entusiasmo porque me fascinó el contexto histórico, la guerra de secesión de EEUU, pero en general se me ha hecho largo. Para mi gusto le sobran por lo menos la mitad de páginas. La historia no está mal, es casi biográfica, en general entretenida (y casi siempre dramática) pero muchas veces se hace lenta y es fácil perder el interés. Me pareció bastante más floja que El Médico.
April 17,2025
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Iespaidīgs laikmeta tēlojums - 19. gadsimta Amerika. Higiēnas u.c. atklājumi medicīnā, lauku ārsta ikdiena. Pilsoņu karš, balto attiecības ar sauku indiāņiem un mīlestība.
April 17,2025
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This was a wonderful book to read. Two amaizing and unforgetable characters, descendant from that first Rob J. Cole we meet at The Physician, shared his same name and the passion for medicine. They both follow they heart and believes. Robert J. Cole (father) is forced to leave his natal Scotland and travel to the new world for political reassons, there he travels to Boston fist and then to the west, where he get in touch with a native american tribe...
And then there was Chaman (Robert Jefferson Cole, the son)who admired his father and wanted to become a doctor, just like him, also sharing this odd gift.... The practice of Medicine is not so obscure anymore, not like it was when the first Robert decided to became a doctor. The problem is, no medical university with prestige would accept a deaf student. But Chaman wont accept "no" for answer.
In the middle of all this, we also follow the story of the Great civil war in the USA, where friends and sometimes family membes took part in opposite borders, and in the middle of the battle, we follow the needs and limitation doctors were force to face in order to safe human lifes.
This book could really make the big screen.
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