Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

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 Atlant…

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