Watership Down, by Richard Adams, is a tale of adventure and sorrow through the eyes of rabbits as they seek their own place in the animal world. The Sandleford warren rabbits used their natural instinct and fled the intrusion of man and destruction. This decision takes them through the remainder of the book, which enriched by Adams"s vivid imagination, tells of their dangerous travels over the green fields and meadows of early England. The group barely survives vicious predators and other hostile warrens. Yet, in.

             the end, as the animals" instincts kick in, they settle down in a place known as Watership Down, only wanting to create the perfect warren.

             The author of this book, Richard George Adams was born in 1920 in Berkshire,England. Married to Elizabeth Adams, and boasting a degree in modern history, he is known for his verse and fiction for children. Most of his books are set in the world of animals, such as rabbits or dogs. Watership Down was his first children"s novel, but it became an instant bestseller when adult and adolescent audiences all across the world fell in love with it. Some of his other novels include Shardik, which is about a man"s belief in a supernatural bear- god, The Plague Dogs, which is about two badly injured who escape.

             from an animal experimentation laboratory, The Girl in a Swing, which is about the marriage of a quiet English man to a mysterious and beautiful German women, and, Maia,which is about the heroic adventures of a poor girl sold to a rich nobleman. His autobiography, Day Gone By, is currently out of print.

             Watership Down was originally developed from stories Adams told to amuse his two daughters on long road trips. At this point, he was working as a civil servant in Great Britain"s Department of Environment, but, at their insistence, he began to write the novel that was finished two years later. After many rejections, he finally found a publisher who agreed to print a small number of copies.