Watership Down

Overview: Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany. In 1940 Adams joined the British Army, in which he served until 1946. He received a class B discharge enabling him to return to Worcester to continue his studies for a further two years (1946-48). He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and of Master of Arts in 1953.[2] Watership Down By Richard Adams Is A True Classic. This Stirring Tale Of Courage And Survival Against The Odds Has Become One Of The Best-loved Animal Adventures Of All Time. 'we've Got To Go Away Before It's Too Late.' Fiver Was Only A Small Rabbit, But He Had A Sixth Sense And Foresaw That Disaster Was About To Destroy The Warren. Few Believed Him. Led By His Brother Hazel, A Small Band Of Rabbits Set Out On A Perilous Journey To Find A Safe Home. Fiver's Intuition Finally Leads Them To Watership Down. But Here They Encounter The Greatest Threat Of All. ***winner Of The Carnegie Medal And The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize*** '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.