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Watership Down — Penguin Books (UK)
''...a treacherous journey and quest for survival - one to pick up, time and time again
- The Guardian
An epic story that, since its first publication almost fifty years ago, has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written.
Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it. They must leave immediately.
And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver''s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all...
Richard Adams 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.
- The Guardian
An epic story that, since its first publication almost fifty years ago, has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written.
Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it. They must leave immediately.
And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver''s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all...
Richard Adams 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.
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