Iida Turpeinen is the author of Beasts of the Sea, a Finnish novel tracing the fate of a now-extinct species: the sea cow. Similar to dugongs and manatees, the sea cow was only discovered in 1741 by the shipwrecked German-born naturalist Georg…
Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim | Environment
