Beautiful Swimmers
1976 nonfiction book by William W. Warner
0-316-92326-5Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976) is a non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen. The book takes its name from the generic name of the blue crab, Callinectes, which is Greek for "beautiful swimmer." It won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.[1] As of the time of the author’s death in 2008, the book had never been out of print. [2]
References
- William W. Warner. Beautiful Swimmers. The Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown Books. 1976. ISBN 0-316-92326-5
External links
- Beautiful Swimmers at Open Library
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