Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

Author: William W. Warner

The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Atlantic blue crab and the people of the Chesapeake Bay who have depended on it for generations.For decades, William Warner’s exploration of the Atlantic blue crab and the Chesapeake Bay has delighted thousands of readers and become a modern American classic. Nature enthusiasts and fans of fine literature alike will find Beau….Read More

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