The Waterman
By Tim Junkin
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; 300 pages; $22.95)
In Beautiful Swimmers, William W. Warner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the Chesapeake Bay and its most famous denizen, the Atlantic blue crab, one of the men whose livelihood depends on the Bay and its bounty offers this brief commentary on his existence: “My father raised me a waterman and it’s all what I know how to do. Follow the water one year same as the next. Ain’t no sense in it, but I do it just the same.”
