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. Set in the Hampshire Downs in Southern England, an idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do ( Chicago Tribune) follows a band of rabbits in flight from the incursion of man and the destruction. 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. Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Charismatic characters, nail-biting action, and an engrossing plot combine to produce a classic. This rousing story of a band of rabbits who escape Positive Role Models Not present One otherwise heroic main character is something o Violence & Scariness Several fights and one intense siege occur a majo Sex, Romance & Nudity Not present Mild references to courtship and bearing young. 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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