Gillian Bradshaw
Beacon at Alexandria
Paperback
(Soho Press July 1, 2003)
In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch she flees Ephesus for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewish doctor but eventually becomes drawn into Church politics and is forced once again to flee. She serves as an army doctor at a Roman outpost in Thrace until, kidnapped by barbarian Visigoths, she finds her destiny to heal and also to be a woman and a wife.
- Series
- The Hera Series
- ISBN
- 1569470103 / 9781569470107
- Pages
- 376
- Weight
- 6.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 1.2 in.
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