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Beasts of the Sea The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of"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). 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