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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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Gordon Taylor

Fever and Thirst

Academy Chicago


Academy Chicago Publishers
Fever and Thirst
A Missionary Doctor Amid the
Christian Tribes of Kurdistan
Gordon Taylor

Published in 2005 by
Academy Chicago Publishers
363 West Erie Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610

© 2005 Gordon Taylor

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Cover design by Sarah Olson
Author photo by Charles Rushton Photography
Cover art: Shrine of Nebbi Yunus and walls of
Nineveh. Drawing by Claudius James Rich.
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And there are some, whom a thirst
Ardent, unquenchable, fires,
Not with the crowd to be spent,
Not without aim to go round
In an eddy of purposeless dust,
Effort unmeaning and vain ...
We, we have chosen our path—
Path to a clear-purposed goal,
Path of advance! but it leads
A long, steep journey, through sunk
Gorges, o'er mountains in snow!

—Matthew Arnold, “Rugby Chapel” (1857)

This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions.

—Byron, Don Juan, cto. i, st. 132

 




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