40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits
- Watership Down" is one of the most beloved novels of our time. Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazels younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land but no one will listen. & why would they when it is Spring & the grass is fat & succulent? So together Hazel & Fiver & a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety & strictures of the warren & hop tentatively out into a vast & strange world. Chased by their former friends hunted by dogs & foxes avoiding farms & other human threats but making new friends Hazel & his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of Watership Down..."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 Childrens Fiction Award & the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams has written many novels & short stories including " Shardik" & " The Plague Dogs"."