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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

by William W. Warner, John Barth · 1976

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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.

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Chesapeake BayChesapeake BayMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 352 pages

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