In the remote mountain forests of Styria, a stranger settles among charcoal burners, woodcutters and poachers and becomes their schoolmaster. His journal records the hardships and small joys of a scattered, half-wild community, the children he teaches and the slow work of bringing learning and faith to a place the world has forgotten.
A deeply felt Austrian classic by a writer who was himself a forest peasant’s son. Download the free EPUB.