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  1. Nov 1, 1972 · 4.09. 488,246 ratings18,195 reviews. Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here. 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.

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  2. May 8, 2020 · But once it was published, the reviews glowed. Copies sold beyond the original print run of 2,500 by many multiples, making it a near-instant bestseller. Watership Down was similarly popular in the US, where it became Penguin’s all-time best seller, with 50 million copies in print across 18 languages.

  3. May 15, 2018 · On the Unsettling Allure of ‘Watership Down’. Richard Adams’s 1972 book, “Watership Down,” is an epic about rabbits and the various threats to their way of life. Traveling to the real ...

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  4. Apr 5, 2020 · It is this copy I read for this review. I’m pleased to say that Mr Adams came up to scratch. ‘Watership Down’ is still an exquisitely beautiful story and the writing remains impeccable. The book, frankly, shouldn’t exist. It’s a story about bunnies which puts it firmly in the ‘for children’ category, and yet the writing is ...

  5. Although the rabbit characters have a language and a culture, and they converse and interact just as humans do, these are not cap-and-waistcoat picture-book bunnies, but fully realized characters whose conflicts and triumphs keep readers engrossed. This is primarily an adventure novel, but one for thinking people.

  6. Philip Reeve, Children's Author. ” This book scarred me as a child. The impact it had on me when I first read it was profound. I’m not sure I knew what I was getting into when I first picked it up. It’s brutal. Richard Adams writes about all of life: hope, freedom, sex, violence, death and evil. The rabbits in Watership Down are fleeing ...

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  8. From the outside it can look deceptively similar to a children's chapter book. But despite the talking animals and adventure, it's so much more than a cute, simple read aloud book before bedtime. Watership Down follows a small group of wild rabbits who become refugees, leaving their old warren which is set to be destroyed by construction work ...

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