O Missionário
By Inglês de Sousa
Cover: Votorantim Waterfall (1893), painting by Almeida Júnior (1850–1899) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1899)
Father Antônio de Morais, a young and ardent priest, arrives in the Amazon river town of Silves to convert the Indian peoples of the interior, with a pious scheme in his head and no knowledge of the region. Inglês de Sousa's naturalist novel of 1891 follows him as the forest, the town's people and his own senses test his vows.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.