''Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay'' (1976) is a non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the

Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula (including the parts: the Eastern Shore of Maryland / ...

blue crabs Blue crab may refer to: * Blue Crab 11, an American sailboat design * ''Callinectes sapidus'' – Chesapeake or Atlantic blue crab of the West Atlantic, introduced elsewhere * ''Cardisoma guanhumi'' – blue land crab of the West Atlantic * '' Disc ...

and

watermen A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies. Most notable are those on the River Thames and River Medway in England, but other rivers such as th ...

. The book takes its name from the

generic Generic or generics may refer to: In business * Generic term, a common name used for a range or class of similar things not protected by trademark * Generic brand, a brand for a product that does not have an associated brand or trademark, other ...

name of the blue crab, '' Callinectes'', which is Greek for "beautiful swimmer." It won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.

References

*William W. Warner. ''Beautiful Swimmers''. The Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown Books. 1976.

External links

* 1976 non-fiction books Works about Chesapeake Bay Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works {{nonfiction-book-stub