num_pages: 429
description: Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—now a Emmy Award-winning Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley.A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
language: English
title: Watership Down
titlecomplete: Watership Down
characters: Dandelion, General Woundwort, Kehaar, Fiver, Bigwig, El-Ahrairah, Frith, Pipkin, Hyzenthlay, Hazel, Silver (Watership Down), Blackberry
genres: Fantasy, Animals, Literature, Novels, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Audiobook
ratings_count: 472824
places: United Kingdom, Hampshire, England, Watership Down, Hampshire, England
series: Watership Down
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1577865600000
name: Audie Award
category: Best Male Narrator, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons