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Turpeinen, Iida (detail)
   
2004
Das Wesen des Lebens: Roman.
316 pp.
–S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main: ISBN 978-3-10-397630-4. 316 pp.
 Translated from Finnish. Original edition: Helsinki, 2023.
  A novel based on the expedition of Vitus Bering and G. W. Steller ca. 1742, and the discovery of Steller's sea cow. Drawing of Hydrodamalis gigas from Hutchinson 1892: Frontispiece. Mentions of manatees & dugong, pp. 7-9, 42-49, 309; Prorastomus, 56-60; hunting, behavior, anatomy, etc. of HG, 65-74, 80, 81-93; measurements of HG, 85-86; HG skeleton in Helsinki: 298-307; dugong & manatees, 309.

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Fiction
(SEE ALSO: Children's Literature)
  2004 Turpeinen, Iida (HG; novel on Bering's and Steller's voyage and discovery of Steller's sea cow.)

Hydrodamalis gigas (Zimmermann, 1780) Palmer, 1895
  2004 Turpeinen, Iida (novel on Bering's and Steller's voyage and discovery of Steller's sea cow.)


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