The Beggar and the Professor
Swiss Authors
Protestants
Physicians, biography
Fiction, sagas
Authors
Genealogy
Physicians
Fiction, general
Biography
History
In 1499, high in the remote and bitterly impoverished mountains of the Valais, Thomas Platter was born and quickly abandoned, left to make his way among the crags as a herder of goats and sheep. At the age of ten, mustering the ferocity of will that would serve him throughout his life, Thomas walked…
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