Watership Down" by Richard Adams is a true classic. This stirring tale of courage & survival against the odds has become one of the best-loved animal adventures of all time. ' We've got to go away before it's too late.' Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren
- he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel for Fiver's sixth sense was never wrong. They had to leave immediately & they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. & so begins a long & perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down but here they face their most difficult challenge of all..." Watership Down" is an epic journey a stirring tale of adventure courage & survival against the odds. First published in 1972 this paperback reissue with a stunning new cover celebrates its 40th anniversary. Winner of the Carnegie Medal & the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. "A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren & the subsequent adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye & a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come". (" Sunday Times"). "A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since " The Wind in the Willows". Very funny exciting often moving". (" Evening Standard"). "A great book. A whole world is created perfectly real in itself yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs". (" Guardian"). Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford he spent six years in the army & then went into the Civil Service. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters & they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children & adults & won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award & the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams has written many novels & short stories including " Shardik" & " The Plague Dogs"."