Watership Down

Description

Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival follows a band of very special rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout-hearted pair of brothers, they leave the safety of Sandleford Warren in search of a safe haven and a mysterious promised land, skirting danger at every turn. A book that resonates as vividly today as it did nearly half a century ago, this keepsake Oneworld Classic edition showcases more than twenty sumptuous, evocative paintings from Aldo Galli, an illustrator chosen by Richard Adams himself.

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 bestsellingbooks of the last forty years. He lives in Hampshire, England with his wife, Elizabeth, to whom he has been married for sixty-five years.

'Watership Down is stunning, compulsive reading.' * Sunday Times * 'This beautifully written and intensely moving story is the work of an extraordinary imagination.' * Sunday Telegraph * 'A great book. A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.' * Guardian * 'A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows. Very funny, exciting, often moving.' * Evening Standard * 'An impressive, immensely readable story, held together over 400 pages by a powerful imagination that soon forbids disbelief.' * New Statesman * 'Quite marvelous... A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.' * New York Times Book Review * 'This new edition is quite spectacular.' * Bill Heine, BBC Radio Oxford * 'A classic... A great book.' -- Los Angeles Times 'Exquisite... a treasured keepsake for those whose original version has become tattered, and a delightful introduction to a new generation.' * The View magazine * 'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels. 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 * 'Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do.' * Chicago Tribune * 'This lovely, lovely novel will join those classics which preserve the simpler joys... and there is the wonder of the English countryside, seen with the ground-level detail of a rabbit's eye and ear and nose, the scent and savour of short, sweet grass, the aromatic tiny wild plants, their names used like charms.' -- Monica Dickens