The Voyage of the Short Serpent

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In which a pompous churchman sets out on an expedition to check up on the spiritual and material conditions among a Christian settlement in the far reaches of the Arctic, finding there an impoverished community with little hope or spiritual ardor, whereupon he inflicts a series of punishments whi...

from soraxtm

It was an easy compulsive read. It was also a pointless catalogue of human degradation. Perhaps what made the book special was some literary style which couldn't be translated.

from kewing

A report, based on the untrustworthy rantings of a cleric, of a descent into the frozen hell of Greenland during a little Ice Age. Through the return of a cleric to a distant colony in Greenland, with which communication has been absent for 50 years, Boucheron bares the hypocrisy of the medieval ...