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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner

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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

Beautiful Swimmers won the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, William Warner's exploration of the Atlantic blue crab and the Chesapeake Bay has delighted thousands of readers and become a modern American classic. Nature enthusiasts and fans of fine literature alike will find Beautiful Swimmers a timeless and enchanting study in the tradition of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. In these pages, we are immersed not only in the world of the Chesapeake's most intriguing crustaceans, but in the winds and tides of the Bay itself and the struggles of the watermen who make their living in pursuit of the succulent, pugnacious blue crab.

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Publisher
Little
Year
2026
ISBN-13
9780316614863
Genre
Science & Technology
Topics
Chesapeake Bay ecologyBlue crab biologyWatermen culture and traditions

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