Watership Down
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st aus ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the rolling English countryside, a small band of rabbits flee their doomed warren on a desperate journey to find a new home — a quest that is at once achingly intimate and mythically vast. Watership Down chronicles the harrowing odyssey of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions as they face predators, rival warrens, and the indifferent machinery of the modern world, driven by nothing more than courage, loyalty, and an instinct for survival. Richard Adams constructs an entire civilisation from the ground up, complete with its own language, mythology, and social codes, drawing the reader so completely into the rabbits' world that their struggles carry the full moral and emotional weight of an epic. First published in 1972 after being rejected by numerous publishers, the novel stands as one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century storytelling — a book that argues, with quiet ferocity, that heroism is not the province of size or power, but of heart. Whether encountered in childhood or rediscovered in adult life, it leaves an indelible mark that no subsequent reading can fully extinguish.
Author: Richard Adams
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Rex Collings / Angus & Robertson
Genre: Adventure fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the rolling English countryside, a small band of rabbits flee their doomed warren on a desperate journey to find a new home — a quest that is at once achingly intimate and mythically vast. Watership Down chronicles the harrowing odyssey of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions as they face predators, rival warrens, and the indifferent machinery of the modern world, driven by nothing more than courage, loyalty, and an instinct for survival. Richard Adams constructs an entire civilisation from the ground up, complete with its own language, mythology, and social codes, drawing the reader so completely into the rabbits' world that their struggles carry the full moral and emotional weight of an epic. First published in 1972 after being rejected by numerous publishers, the novel stands as one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century storytelling — a book that argues, with quiet ferocity, that heroism is not the province of size or power, but of heart. Whether encountered in childhood or rediscovered in adult life, it leaves an indelible mark that no subsequent reading can fully extinguish.