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Fever and Thirst


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Éditeur : Academy Chicago Date & Lieu : 2005, Chicago
Préface : Pages : 354
Traduction : ISBN : 0-89733-537-6
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 140x225 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Tay. Fev. 1260Thème : Général

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Fever and Thirst

Fever and Thirst, A Missionary Doctor Amid the Christian Tribes of Kurdistan

Gordon Taylor

Academy Chicago


The first Americans to work with the people of the Middle East were neither spies nor soldiers. They were, in fact, teachers, printers, and missionaries, of whom one was a country doctor from Utica, New York. In June of 1835 Asahel Grant, M.D., and his bride Judith sailed from Boston to heal the sick and save the world. Their destination was the town of Urmia, in northwest Iran, and their intended flock the Nestorian Christians who lived there and in the mountains of Hakkari, across the border in Ottoman Kurdistan.

Into the next eight years Grant packed ten lifetimes worth of danger, heartbreak, and exertion. He traversed deserts and glaciers, forded rivers, learned fluent Turkish and Syriac, opened schools, tended the sick and dying, confronted bandits, broke bread with thieves and murderers, and narrowly escaped death from drowning, malaria, cholera, influenza, mercury poisoning, dysentery, hypothermia, and assassination. In one year alone, he lost three-fifths of his family (including Judith) to disease.

Yet by the time his shattered body gave out, there was no one in the mountains who did not know his name and his legend, and thirty years later Kurds, Nestorians, Jews and Yedzis still spoke of "Hakim Grant” with reverence.

Gordon Taylor’s fascination with the Middle East began in the mid-1960s, when he worked as a Peace Corps teacher in Ankara, Turkey. He has spent over a decade collecting material on Asahel Grant and his work. Taylor, a waiter and avid traveler, has spent time in Turkey, Siena Leone, Greece and Israel, and now' lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.


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Contents


Maps / x, xi
Illustrations - Photos / 151-60

1 The Remedy / 1
2 Utica and Beyond / 5
3 Miasma / 14
4 The Last Dreams of Mahmud / 28
5 Mosul and Mesopotamia / 38
6 Into Kurdistan / 48
7 Manna and Its Heaven / 59
8 The Patriarch and the Kurd / 84
9 The Arms of Urmia / 107
10 Competition / 121
11 Critics, Snipers, and Frauds / 135
12 The Pilgrim / 161
13 Inferno / 172
14 “Inductions Dangerous” / 193
15 Demons and Angels / 203
16 “Wars and Rumors of Wars" / 215
17 The House in Asheetha / 235
18 Mr. Badger Drops In / 251
19 Holding the Tigris / 269
20 Devouring Fire / 289
21 A Long, Steep Journey / 298
22 The Monument in Asheetha / 313

Epilogue / 323
Acknowledgments / 325
Notes and Comment / 327
Bibliography / 339
Glossary / 347
Index / 349




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