I'm happy to recommend "Beautiful Swimmers Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay" by William W. Warner.
Callinectes sapidus. Callinectes is Greek for "beautiful swimmers" and sapidus is Latin for "tasty". If that's doesn't describe blue crabs, nothing does.
I had picked up a friend to take him to a picnic that a lot of us were attending, had another friend's family farm. I'm not sure how we got on the topic, but he mentioned that his wife's brother was in search and rescue. I asked if his brother-in-law had read _The Perfect Storm_.
"He was _in_ the perfect storm: he was the diver who [got into trouble a few ways]."
Also suggest "The Hungry Ocean" by Linda Greenlaw. She was the last to contact the Andrea Gail and first woman, and very successful, sword boat captain.
Because both are beautifully written, thought provoking and encompass both environmental history and ideas about what our own relationship to our environment has been and might yet be ... and also because these are books I love.
The fishing angle is obvious in Duncan, less so in Leopold but very much worth searching out. And although it was fly fishing he was known to love and wrote about most often, he grew up, like me (and not a mile, as the crow flies, from where I am sitting now), digging worms and dropping their wriggling bodies into the mouths of catfish (and carp, and bluegill, and even the occasional trout).
I'm happy to recommend "Beautiful Swimmers Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay" by William W. Warner.
Callinectes sapidus. Callinectes is Greek for "beautiful swimmers" and sapidus is Latin for "tasty". If that's doesn't describe blue crabs, nothing does.
I had picked up a friend to take him to a picnic that a lot of us were attending, had another friend's family farm. I'm not sure how we got on the topic, but he mentioned that his wife's brother was in search and rescue. I asked if his brother-in-law had read _The Perfect Storm_.
"He was _in_ the perfect storm: he was the diver who [got into trouble a few ways]."
Wasn't much I could say after that.
Also suggest "The Hungry Ocean" by Linda Greenlaw. She was the last to contact the Andrea Gail and first woman, and very successful, sword boat captain.
I would add these:
The River Why, by David James Duncan
and
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
Because both are beautifully written, thought provoking and encompass both environmental history and ideas about what our own relationship to our environment has been and might yet be ... and also because these are books I love.
The fishing angle is obvious in Duncan, less so in Leopold but very much worth searching out. And although it was fly fishing he was known to love and wrote about most often, he grew up, like me (and not a mile, as the crow flies, from where I am sitting now), digging worms and dropping their wriggling bodies into the mouths of catfish (and carp, and bluegill, and even the occasional trout).
I can never see/hear about cod without thinking about Joanne Freeman now. Thanks #HATM