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Watership Down

Watership Down( )
Author: Adams, Richard
Series title:Perennial Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-06-093545-0
Publication Date:May 2001
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $13.00
Book Description:

First published in 1972, Richard Adam's extraordinary bestseller Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests, and riverbanks, far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership, and survival; and epic tale of a hardy band of Berkshire rabbits forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a...
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Book Details
Pages:512
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Rabbits
Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.312 x 8 x 1.153 Inches
Book Weight:0.946 Pounds
Author Biography
Adams, Richard (Author)
Richard George Adams was born in Newbury, England on May 9, 1920. He enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1938, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. During the war, he served with the British airborne forces in the Middle East and India. After the war, he returned to Oxford and received a degree in history in 1948. He joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and worked his way up over 20 years to a senior post in the clean-air section of the environmental department. He retired in 1974 to become a full-time writer.

His first his novel, Watership Down, was published in 1972. It received the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 1972 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1973. His other books include Shardik, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, and Tales from Watership Down. He also wrote an autobiography entitled The Day Gone By. He died on December 24, 2016 at the age of 96.

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