Watership Down: Classic Gift Edition with Ribbon Marker - Hardcover

Adams, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786070278 ISBN 13: 9781786070272

Publisher: Rock the Boat, 2018

Synopsis

 

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved novels of all time, and resonates just as vividly today as it did nearly half a century ago. 

With a new four-part BBC adaptation planned for Christmas 2018, in collaboration with Netflix and voiced by stars including John Boyega, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Colman and James McAvoy, this beautiful new heritage edition will be treasured by children for years to come. Design features of this classic edition include gold foil, head and tail bands and a beautiful gold ribbon, making this the ideal gift for Christmas and beyond.

About this title

Review:

Stunning, compulsive reading.  

--(Sunday Times)

A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.

--(Guardian)

Beautifully written and intensely moving... the work of an extraordinary imagination.  

--(Sunday Telegraph)

About the Author:

Richard Adams (1920-2016), the son of a country doctor, grew up in Berkshire and studied history at Worcester College, Oxford before and after the Second World War, in which he served in the 1st Airborne Division. The author of more than a dozen works, he originally began telling the story of Watership Down, his first book, to his two daughters to while away a long car journey to Stratford-on-Avon. They insisted he write it down and it became a huge success on publication with people of all ages, winning both the Guardian Children s Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal. Watership Down (the illustrated edition of which was published by Oneworld, 2014) is now considered a modern classic. Along with another of his books, Shardik (Oneworld, 2014), Watership Down was listed in the Sunday Times top 100 bestselling books of the last forty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rock the Boat
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786070278
• ISBN 13: 9781786070272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528