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WATERSHIP DOWN - RICHARD ADAMS KARTONIERT (TB)

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.
Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land  but
no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So
together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and
strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange world. Chased by their
former friends  hunted by dogs and foxes  avoiding farms and other human threats  but making
new friends  Hazel and his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of
Watership Down . . . 'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent
adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye and 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 and then went
into the Civil Service. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two
daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both
children and adults  and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in
1972. Richard Adams has written many novels and short stories  including Shardik and The Plague
Dogs.

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