![]() It’s quite amazing to think it was almost never published at all.Īdams, who would have been 100 this week, was a civil servant for most of his life, working in housing, local government and eventually in the Department of the Environment and hailing from Berkshire. ![]() ![]() Nearly 50 years have passed, and Richard Adams' cautionary tale remains starkly relevant. ![]() Or maybe you were taken to the cinema to see the infamous 1978 film adaptation, which terrified an entire generation so thoroughly that for the next one, millennials, 'Watership Down' became synonymous with peril. Over the past decade, the image of Watership Down’s cartoon rabbits have been revived for a new generation in meme culture. If you were a child of the Seventies, perhaps you were among the millions who devoured the book. Getty/Penguinĭepending on when your childhood was, the words ‘Watership Down’ may well conjure something fairly vivid. ![]()
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