Beautiful Swimmers
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976) is a Pulitzer Prize
winning non-fiction book by William W. Warner
about the Chesapeake Bay
, blue crabs and watermen
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1977 Pulitzer Prize
-Journalism awards:*Public Service:**The Lufkin News , for an obituary of a local man who died in Marine training camp, which grew into an investigation of that death and a fundamental reform in the recruiting and training practices of the United States Marine Corps.*Local General or Spot News...
winning non-fiction book by William W. Warner
William W. Warner
William W. Warner was an American biologist and writer.Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...
about the Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West...
, blue crabs and watermen
Watermen
Watermen are river workers who transfer passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in Britain and its colonies. Most notable are those on the River Thames and River Medway, but other rivers such as the River Tyne and River Dee, Wales also had their watermen who formed guilds in...
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