The Plague Dogs
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Two dogs escape from a brutal animal research laboratory in the English Lake District — and what follows in Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs is a harrowing, magnificent chase across some of Britain's most dramatic landscapes, seen entirely through the animals' own bewildered yet vivid consciousness. Rowf, a large black mongrel broken by repeated near-drowning experiments, and Snitter, a fox terrier whose brain has been surgically altered, stumble into the wild fells of Cumbria, hunted by the press, the army, and a terrified public who fear they may carry bubonic plague. Adams brings to this novel the same fierce moral conviction and extraordinary gift for animal perspective that defined Watership Down, crafting a searing indictment of vivisection wrapped in a narrative of survival, loyalty, and the primal bond between human and beast. Enriched by illustrations and maps by A. Wainwright — the legendary fell-walker whose meticulous hand-drawn guides are themselves icons of English landscape literature — the novel achieves a rare synthesis of documentary realism and mythic resonance. For all its warmth and dark humour, The Plague Dogs leaves an indelible question hanging over the reader: at what cost does science claim dominion over the innocent?
Author: Richard Adams
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Two dogs escape from a brutal animal research laboratory in the English Lake District — and what follows in Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs is a harrowing, magnificent chase across some of Britain's most dramatic landscapes, seen entirely through the animals' own bewildered yet vivid consciousness. Rowf, a large black mongrel broken by repeated near-drowning experiments, and Snitter, a fox terrier whose brain has been surgically altered, stumble into the wild fells of Cumbria, hunted by the press, the army, and a terrified public who fear they may carry bubonic plague. Adams brings to this novel the same fierce moral conviction and extraordinary gift for animal perspective that defined Watership Down, crafting a searing indictment of vivisection wrapped in a narrative of survival, loyalty, and the primal bond between human and beast. Enriched by illustrations and maps by A. Wainwright — the legendary fell-walker whose meticulous hand-drawn guides are themselves icons of English landscape literature — the novel achieves a rare synthesis of documentary realism and mythic resonance. For all its warmth and dark humour, The Plague Dogs leaves an indelible question hanging over the reader: at what cost does science claim dominion over the innocent?