Tales from Watership Down

Description

Richard Adams returns to the world of Fiver, Hazel and Bigwig, with the younger generations of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age which existed before they were born. The millions of readers who have enjoyed Watership Down will be delighted to re-enter this unique and special world.

Richard Adams, the son of a country doctor, grew up in Berkshire and studied history at Worcester College, Oxford before and after the Second World War. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning Watership Down, his first book (the illustrated edition of which was published by Oneworld Modern Classics, 2014). Two of his books, Watership Down and Shardik, were listed in the Sunday Times top 100 bestselling books of the last forty years. He lives in Hampshire, England with his wife, Elizabeth, to whom he has been married for sixty-five years.

Praise for Watership Down 'Stunning, compulsive reading.' * Sunday Times * 'A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.' * Guardian *