Unbelievable history of preacher and his young student, boy-lapp of Юсси. Summer of 1852th, deaf hamlet on the north of Sweden. Юсси ran from home, where starved and suffered from beatings. Soon coming him to keep company to scientific man Лестадиусу in his botanical expeditions during that there will be their duet of teacher and student. A preacher will teach Юсси to distinguish plants, read and write, and also love and be afraid of God. Лестадиус carries a word Divine to the topagans. But once an infatuation for a botany will urge on a pastor and Юсси on a quite unexpected way. A maid disappeared on a remote farm - did not return from the forest, where pastured cows. Wherein she disappeared, on the barrels of trees found out tracks of bear claws. All are sure that a girl was killed by a bear-cannibal. And only a preacher doubts. So investigation begins, that conduct pastor Лестадиус and boy-lapp (an unexpected literary reincarnation of pair of Холмс is Watson).Увлекательнейшая detective intrigue is built-in in a no less enthralling historical novel, and all of it is given with warm, slightly ironical intonation. Interestingly and that Ларс Леви Лестадиус is the real historical person, man, that all life conducted among lapps and, in fact, christianized them.