Watership Down

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478 pages

English language

Published Aug. 27, 1978

ISBN:
978-0-380-00293-1
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4 stars (4 reviews)

Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. 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' 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. The novel was adapted into an animated feature film in 1978 and, from 1999 to 2001, an animated children's television series. …

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reviewed Unten am Fluss by Richard Adams

Eins der besten Bücher

5 stars

Eine Gruppe Kaninchen macht sich auf, eine neue Heimat zu finden, nachdem ihr Bau durch Menschliche Bebauung zerstört wurde. Die Kaninchen sind ausreichend vermenschlicht und intelligent, um tiefe eigene Persönlichkeiten zu entwickeln. Gleichzeitig betrachten sie aber weiterhin mit Kaninchenaugen die Welt. Sie haben ihre eigene Sprache und wunderschöne Mythologie, was sie noch lebendiger macht. Das Buch ist voller herrlich ausschweifender Landschaftsbeschreibungen. Und wie die Kaninchen sich in ihrer Freundschaft stets gegenseitig helfend die wildesten Abenteuer bestehen ist entzückend. Trotz dem niedlichen Setting ist die Geschichte durchaus ernst und der Spannungsbogen war für mich als Kind eine Herausforderung. Das Buch hat definitiv seinen Hype verdient und ich werde es immer wieder weiterempfehlen und selbst lesen.

reviewed Watership Down by Richard Adams

Nice rabbit story

4 stars

This was a fun and nice book to read. It is cool to see a lot of human things described from 'rabbit perspective' with only some of them knowing what to do with something. I loved the parts where one of the rabbits came up with something smart, without a way to make the other rabbits understand how it worked. Like the boat.

reviewed Watership Down by Richard Adams

Review of 'Watership Down' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

This was a fun and nice book to read.
It is cool to see a lot of human things described from 'rabbit perspective' with only some of them knowing what to do with something.
I loved the parts where one of the rabbits came up with something smart, without a way to make the other rabbits understand how it worked. Like the boat.

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4 stars