Beautiful Swimmers Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-21
Publisher(s): Back Bay Books
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Summary

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. Penguin Nature Library.

Author Biography

William W. Warner (1920-2008) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1977 for Beautiful Swimmers. He was a longtime administrator for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and his writing appeared in the Atlantic Naturalist and the New York Times.

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