Watership Down

Watership Down was Richard Adams' first and most successful novel. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1972.

It tells the story of a group of rabbits' escape from their threatened home and their subsequent adventures. Although Adams has always stated that the book was intended to be a children's story, many fans see the book as a political allegory akin to Animal Farm.

Watership Down has become a modern classic and was made into an acclaimed animated film, directed by Martin Rosen. The film featured the voices of, among others, John Hurt, Richard Briers and Roy Kinnear. Art Garfunkel's No.1 hit, Bright Eyes was also featured, although in a different arrangement than the record version. In 1999, an animated television series under the same name was produced with Martin Rosen as coproducer.

Watership Down is a real location: it is a hill in the north of Hampshire in England, in the region where Richard Adams grew up.