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Beautiful Swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay / by William W. Warner ; drawings by Consuelo Hanks.

Van Pelt Library SH380.45.U5 W37
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LIBRA - Blank Collection SH380.45.U5 W37 1976
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Warner, William W.
Contributor:
Hanks, Consuelo E. (Eames), illustrator.
Bryant, Samuel, cartographer.
Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Crab fisheries--Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).
Crab fisheries.
Callinectes.
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.).
Penn Provenance:
Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 304, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1976]
Contents:
Preface
The Bay
Autumn, Deal Island
Winter
Follow the Water
Beautiful Swimmer
Spring
Lester Lee and the Chicken Neckers
To Market
Summer and Scraping
The Islands, Looking Ahead
Out Main Bay
Crisfeld
An Afterword.
Notes:
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
"Atlantic-Little Brown Books are published by Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press."
Lining paper map by Samuel Bryant.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
Kislak copy has dust jacket with transparent protective cover retained.
Kislak copy is "Tenth Printing".
ISBN:
0316923265 :
OCLC:
1659680

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