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Beasts of the Sea
Elolliset
Iida Turpeinen · 36 when first published
Novel · 296 pages · Historical, Nature
AI-generated summary:In 1741 the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller sails with Vitus Bering's expedition and finds a giant sea mammal; a century later a governor of Russian Alaska hunts for its skeleton.