Very funny, exciting, often moving' Evening Standard 'A great book. The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows. 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. 'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels. 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. 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. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our time. 40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits.
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