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- Author
- Richard Adams
- First published
- 1972
- Editions
- 97
- Subjects
- Rabbits, Adventure and adventurers, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Children's stories, Survival, Juvenile fiction, Adventure stories
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Key facts
- Author
- Richard Adams
- Language
- English, Lapine
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Publisher
- Rex Collings
- Publication date
- November 1972
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback, paperback & audiobook)
- Pages
- 413 (first edition) plus maps
- Awards
- Carnegie Medal (literary award) Guardian Children's Fiction Prize California Young Reader Medal
- Isbn
- 0-901720-31-3
- Dewey decimal
- 823/.9/14
- Library of congress classification span
- PZ10.3.A197 Wat
- Followed by
- Tales from Watership Down
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- Commons category
- Watership Down (novel)
- publication date
- 1972-11-00
- title
- Watership Down
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Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way.
Watership Down was Richard Adams's debut novel. It was rejected by several publishers before Collings accepted the manuscript; the published book then won the annual Carnegie Medal (UK), annual Guardian Prize (UK), and other book awards.