Beasts of the Sea : A heartbreaking fictional elegy to one of the world's most iconic lost creatures, the Steller's Sea Cow - David Hackston Hardback Balram is one such surveyor-spy

Balram is one such surveyor-spy

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Beasts of the Sea : A heartbreaking fictional elegy to one of the world's most iconic lost creatures, the Steller's Sea Cow - David Hackston Hardback Balram is one such surveyor-spy"A sprawling, seething epic" Lucy Steeds, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize"As deep and profound as the sea itself" Philip Hoare"Almost hypnotically readable" Guardian "Remarkable" The Times1741. The crew of Vitus Bering's ill starred Great Northern Expedition are shipwrecked off a remote, uncharted island. With no hope of rescue, they give in to despair. Until they discover the flesh of a huge marine mammal that feeds in herds on the kelp