![]() When they at last reach their objective, a desolate hill called Watership Down, they feel they have found, and earned, a home.īut then their search for mates to help populate their warren leads to an encounter with a repressive rabbit society, and a gripping undercover plot that culminates in a harrowing stand against the ferocious dictator, General Woundwort. With every incident, however, the value of each individual becomes clear to the others, and they coalesce into a unified band. ![]() But few of them have been far from home, and their journey is perilous: They're attacked by rats in a barn, must cross a creek, and are lulled into a false sense of security in a warren whose rabbits turn out to be fed-and harvested-by a farmer. A worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Watership Down is the compelling tale of a band of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the. In 1974 he retired from the civil service and published a series of further books, including Shardik, Tales from Watership Down, Maia, The Plague Dogs, and The Girl in a Swing. When Hazel's clairvoyant brother, Fiver, predicts a catastrophe, Hazel gathers other young rabbits willing to flee to establish a new warren of their own. It was eventually awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children's fiction for 1972. Charismatic characters, nail-biting action, and an engrossing plot combine to produce a classic. Never mind that the characters in this long and complex but thrilling epic are rabbits-Beatrix Potter, this isn't. A band of young males, relegated to the fringes of society, set out to find a place where they can live free and proud. ![]()
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