Watership Down

Adams, Richard

ISBN 10: 068483605X / ISBN 13: 9780684836058

Published by Scribner's Classics, 1996. Later printing., 1996

About this Item

Very good- in slightly soiled, edgeworn jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Watership Down
• Publisher: Scribner's Classics, 1996. Later printing.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068483605X
• ISBN 13: 9780684836058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world--now a Emmy Award-winning Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley.

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.

About the Author

Richard Adams (1920-2016) was educated at Bradfield College and Worcester College, Oxford. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the civil service. In the mid-1960s he completed his first novel, Watership Down, for which he struggled for several years to find a publisher. It was eventually awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children's fiction for 1972. He would go on to publish several more books, including Shardik, Tales from Watership Down, Maia, The Plague Dogs, and The Girl in a Swing.