Watership Down

Resumen del libro

A Puffin book - stories that last a lifetime. Soon to be a major TV mini-series!An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written. Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried.

He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it.

They must leave immediately. And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all .

. . Richard Adams originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book.

It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Berkshire en 1920, y estudió historia en Bradfield y en el Worcester College de Oxford. En 1972 publicó su primera novela, La colina de Watership, que obtuvo la medalla Carnegie y el premio de literatura de The Guardian. Ha publicado siete novelas más, una autobiografía, el libro de relatos Los cuentos de la colina de Watership (Seix Barral, 1998) y, en colaboración con Ronald Lockley, Voyage Through the Antartic. También colaboró en la publicación de Nature Through the Seasons y de Nature Day and Night (con Max Hooper y David A. Goddard). Richard Adams vive en el sur de Inglaterra con su mujer Elizabeth, experta en historia de la cerámica inglesa.