Beautiful Swimmers

Beautiful 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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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1976–2000)

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• Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
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• Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
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• Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
• A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
• And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
• The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
• The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
• Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
• Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
• The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
• The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
• Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
• Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

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