Beautiful Swimmers

Name: Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
ISBN: 9780316923354

Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner

1994·352 pages

Literary Fiction Science & Mind

“This is a book of rare grace and meditation, one that ranges from adventure to zoology, with no small measure of mystery and history.”
— Miami Herald

“Beautiful Swimmers is wonderful to read and a distinguished addition to our literature.”
— Larry McMurtry

The classic study of the Atlantic blue crab and the people of the Chesapeake Bay who have depended on it for generations. 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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Beautiful Swimmers

Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner

Year

1994

Pages

352

Literary Fiction Science & Mind

Praise

“This is a book of rare grace and meditation, one that ranges from adventure to zoology, with no small measure of mystery and history.”
— Miami Herald