Watership Down By Richard Adams

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In Watership Down Richard Adams sets a fictional group of rabbits in England's’ Downs region using realistic places and references. Adams wrote using a style that emphasizes focus on a singular group rather than the whole world around said group. While utilizing a fictional, lupine dictionary for many common words, Watership Down, maintains interest throughout the entirety of the book with Adams’ phenomenal storytelling and, at times, acknowledgment of the reader directly. The book is extremely fascinating as it shows a the nature of both man and animals and relates the seemingly simple life of rabbits to the complexity of human existence. While Watership Down does emphasize points of finding one’s true home and making something for himself

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