{"product_id":"9780316585835","title":"Beasts of the Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Turpeinen matches the heights of Andrea Barrett” in this sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature spanning three centuries and linked by a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans (Publishers Weekly starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1741, thirty-two-year-old naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller joins Captain Bering’s Great Northern Expedition to scout out a sea route from Asia to America. Plagued with hardships, captain and crew never reach their goal, but they do make a unique discovery, a gentle giant that will be named for the young explorer who described it: Steller’s sea cow.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1859, the governor of the Russian territory of Alaska sends his men to recover the skeleton of the massive marine mammal rumored to have vanished a hundred years before. Two years later, a revered Helsinki professor hires a talented illustrator—a woman!—to make precise drawings of a set of bones sent from afar. The ill-fated beast will help introduce to a skeptical public the concept of human-caused extinction.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Finally, in 1952, the Museum of Zoology assigns its most talented restorer the task of refurbishing the antique skeleton, a testimony to the sea cow’s fate that will fire the imaginations of future generations.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003ebreathtaking literary achievement and an adventure that crosses continents and centuries, \u003ci\u003eBeasts of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of grand ambition, the quest for knowledge, and the urge to resurrect what humankind has, in its ignorance, destroyed.","brand":"Iida Turpeinen","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":45429459386556,"sku":"9780316585835","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8c954836-ee85-41d7-944f-45799f3bc214.jpg?v=1763067482","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9780316585835","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}