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100 1 $aTaylor, Gordon,$d1943-
245 10 $aFever & thirst :$bDr Grant & the Christian tribes of Kurdistan /$cGordon Taylor.
260 $aChicago, Ill. :$bAcademy Chicago ;$aLancaster :$bGazelle Drake Academic [distributor],$c2005.
263 $a200512
300 $a354 pages ;$c22 cm
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520 $a"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, one of whom 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, dysyntery, 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."--Dust jacket flap.
505 0 $aThe remedy -- Utica and beyond -- Miasma -- The last dreams of Mahmud -- Mosul and Mesopotamia -- Into Kurdistan -- Manna and its heaven -- The patriarch and the Kurd -- The arms of Urmia -- Competition -- Critics, snipers, and frauds -- The pilgrim -- Inferno -- "Inductions dangerous" -- Demons and angels -- "Wars and rumors of wars" -- The house in Asheetha -- Mr. Badger drops in -- Holding the Tigris -- Devouring fire -- A long, steep journey -- The monument in Asheetha -- Epilogue.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 339-346) and index.
600 10 $aGrant, Asahel,$d1807-1844.
650 0 $aMissions to Nestorians$zIran$xHistory$y19th century.
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650 7 $aMissions to Assyrian Church of the East members.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01761952
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aTaylor, Gordon.$tFever & thirst.$dChicago, Ill. : Academy Chicago ; Lancaster : Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor], 2005$w(OCoLC)741993955
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