William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory. --Larry McMurtry. -- Miami Herald Beautiful Swimmers is wonderful to read and a distinguished addition to our literature.
This is a book of rare grace and meditation, one that ranges from adventure to zoology, with no small measure of mystery and history.
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.
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.
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.
The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Atlantic blue crab and the people of the Chesapeake Bay who have depended on it for generations.
Penguin Nature Library.
William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory
