![]() But with its intimations of seafaring battle and folkloric tragedy, the title “Watership Down” has a talismanic power, and the turns of the tale itself are unmistakably the products of Adams’s midcentury British worldview. ![]() The author Richard Adams took his title from an actual nearby hill in the south of England, but he could hardly have chosen a more evocative one than Watership Down for his epic 1972 tale of sentient rabbits with their own language, customs and mythology, who eventually find their ideal warren on that Hampshire upland.Īdams famously disavowed any of his story’s allegorical interpretations-it began as an improvised fable to delight and frighten his young daughters on long car rides, he insisted. ![]()
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