Watership Down

Richard Adams

HarperCollins, 2001 - Fiction - 479 pages

First published in 1972, Richard Adam's extraordinary bestseller Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests, and riverbanks, far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership, and survival; and epic tale of a hardy band of Berkshire rabbits forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home"

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This is an amazing book. It's all about adventure. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes adventure books that are also all about friendship. This book takes you into another world entirely!

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User Review  - Kathleen - Goodreads

3.5 rounded up for novelty and love of rabbits. I listened to this fantastical, action-packed and emotionally charged story on an app by Blackstone Audio, for $9.99. The narrator is Ralph Cosham, a ...

Contents

• The Notice Board: 3
• The Chief Rabbit: 9
• Hazels Decision: 14

About the author

Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down (1974), Shardik (1976), The Plague Dogs (1978), The Girl in a Swing (1980), Maia (1985), and Traveller (1988), as well as several works of nonfiction, including his autobiographical The Day Gone By (1991). He and his wife live in the south of England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Watership Down; Perennial Classics
• Author: Richard Adams
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: May 24, 2008
• ISBN: 0060935456, 9780060935450
• Length: 479 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Rabbits; Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic