- Source: Beautiful Swimmers
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976) is a nonfiction 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 General Nonfiction. As of the time of the author’s death in 2008, the book had never been out of print.
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
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk Nonfiksi Umum
- Beautiful Swimmers
- Swimmers (2005 film)
- Waimea Bay
- Callinectes sapidus
- Chesapeake Bay
- Music of Washington, D.C.
- William W. Warner
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- The Lobster Coast
- Bert Hölldobler
