"The title refers to the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. The story began as tales that Richard Adams told his young daughters Juliet and Rosamond during long car journeys. As he explained in 2007, he ""began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of [his] head, as [they] were driving along."" The daughters insisted he write it down—""they were very, very persistent"". After some delay he began writing in the evenings and completed it 18 months later. The book is dedicated to"
"Richard Adams Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books ""Watership Down"", ""Shardik"" and ""The Plague Dogs"". He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after ""Watership Down"" was published, Adams became a full-time author. Richard Adams was born on 9 May 1920 in Wash Common, near Newbury, Berkshire, England, the son of Lillian Rosa (Button) and Elveyn George Beadon Adams, a doctor. He attended"
"1970s was Richard Adams's heroic fantasy ""Watership Down"" (1972). Evoking epic themes, it recounts the odyssey of a group of rabbits seeking to establish a new home. Another successful novel of the same era was John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), with a narrator who freely admits the fictive nature of his story, and its famous alternative endings. This was made into a film in 1981 with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Angela Carter (1940–92) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Her novels include, ""The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman"""
"Shuttle Down Shuttle Down is a novel by American author G. Harry Stine, written under the nom de plume Lee Correy. First appearing as a four-part serial in Analog magazine between December 1980 and March 1981, the novel was later published by Ballantine/Del Rey in 1981, with a second edition following in 1985. The book can best be described as an early form of the techno-thriller genre, later popularized by authors such as Tom Clancy. In the book, the Space Shuttle ""Atlantis"" launches on a polar orbit flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. During the launch, the"
"the film ""Watership Down"" and released it to his SoundCloud page; he had previously cited ""Watership Down"" as one of his favorite books, stating, ""Probably the book that is super inspiring is a book called Watership Down by Richard Adams. It's from the late 70s, about talking rabbits, and it's a very grounded-in-reality book. It's not a kids' book, but it has to do with these talking rabbits and their adventure, and there's a lot of metaphors and crazy stuff. And that's always been a very inspiring thing. If ever I'm feeling dry, or going through writer's block or something,"
"who fell at the First Battle of Newbury), Park House Secondary School and Sports College, St George's Church (Anglican), St Francis de Sales' Church (Roman Catholic), Glendale Church (Independent), three pubs (The Gun, The Old Bell and The Bowlers Arms), Falkland Cricket Club and Newbury Rugby Club. It is also famous as the birthplace of Richard Adams, the author of ""Watership Down"", which begins in eastern Wash Common, specifically on the edge with the more rural and open region of Sandleford. Wash Common Wash Common is a small suburb to the south of Newbury, Berkshire. It is built on the"
"of the AONB can be found Watership Down where the book ""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams is set, to the north of the small market town of Whitchurch, Hampshire. Significant parts of ""Jude the Obscure"" by Thomas Hardy are set on and in the villages connected to the Berkshire Downs. The Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was designated in 1972. It is currently managed by a Council of Partners whose members are: North Wessex Downs The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) (also known as the Chalkenwolds) is located in the English counties of West Berkshire, Hampshire,"
"""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams, a juvenile novel about a family of rabbits which found a home in mainstream literary circles. Joseph Heller's dramatic novel of middle age, ""Something Happened"", was the author's first book since ""Catch-22"" in 1961. James A. Michener also returned to prominence in the seventies, first with ""Chesapeake"", a story of four families interwoven throughout their interactions in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland, and later with ""Centennial"", a historical novel about a family living in Colorado in the time of the 1870s. In 1976, ""Centennial"" was adapted to a popular television miniseries. John Jakes would"
"Lapine language Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel ""Watership Down"", where it is spoken by rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams' 1996 sequel, ""Tales from Watership Down"", and has appeared in both the film and television adaptations. The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of a few dozen distinct words, and are chiefly used for the naming of rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects in their world. The name ""Lapine"" comes from the French word for rabbit, ""lapin"", and can also be used to describe rabbit society. The"
"residential dormitories within Ohio State University. Other authors, such as Patrick Jemmer (who corresponded briefly with Adams regarding the Lapine language), have made large-scale 'recreations' of various possible historical stages of the language. Jemmer's work documents the evolution of numerous inter-related languages (the process of development and analysis is called 'aleolinguistics'). It contains comprehensive syntax for each linguistic stage (or 'aleostate'), and vocabularies involving approximately 2000 lexemes. Sample scripts and comparative texts are available. Lapine language Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel ""Watership Down"", where it is spoken by rabbit characters. The"
"Adams' novel ""Watership Down"". Watership rabbits are pursued by an enemy force, one rabbit carries out a plan which leads to their successful escape down the Test on a punt. In the text we are told that this plan would not have been possible on most rivers, but the Test's smooth-flowing, weed-free nature makes it an exception. The punt becomes lodged on a low bridge, and the surviving rabbits are forced to swim under it. The following are the named tributaries of the River Test, listed in order upstream from Southampton Water. River Test The River Test is a river"
"Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem ""Kubla Khan"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lin Carter wrote a fantasy novel with the same title (), also derived from the same Coleridge poem. The story is told in the first person by Jonah Scott, a British pilot for the fictional airline Air Britain who"
"it as a book. He began writing in 1966, taking two years to complete it. In 1972, after four publishers and three writers' agencies turned down the manuscript, Rex Collings agreed to publish the work. The book gained international acclaim almost immediately for reinvigorating anthropomorphic fiction with naturalism. Over the next few years ""Watership Down"" sold over a million copies worldwide. Adams won both of the most prestigious British children's book awards, one of six authors to do so: the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 1974, following publication of his second novel, ""Shardik"", he left the"
"age of 96 in Oxford, England from complications of a blood disorder. In 1949, Adams married (Barbara) Elizabeth, daughter of R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Edward Fox Dyke Acland, son of the barrister and judge Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland, whose father, the scientist Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (himself created a baronet of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford) descended from the Acland baronets of Columb John. Until his death, he lived with his wife in Whitchurch, within of his birthplace. Their daughters, to whom Adams originally related the tales that became ""Watership Down"", are Juliet and Rosamond. Richard Adams Richard George Adams (9 May"
"similar vein, literary critic Jane Resh Thomas stated that ""Watership Down"" ""draws upon ... an anti-feminist social tradition which, removed from the usual human context and imposed upon rabbits, is eerie in its clarity"". Thomas also called it a ""splendid story"" in which ""anti-feminist bias ... damages the novel in only a minor way"". Adams' 1996 sequel, ""Tales from Watership Down"" includes stories where the female rabbits play a more prominent role in the Watership Down warren. It has been suggested that this might have been an attempt to modernise the story, to make it more in tune with the"
"political sensibilities of the 1990s when it was published. In 1978 Martin Rosen wrote and directed an animated film adaptation of ""Watership Down"". The voice cast included John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne, and Roy Kinnear. The film featured the song ""Bright Eyes"", sung by Art Garfunkel. Released as a single, the song became a UK number one hit. Although the essentials of the plot remained relatively unchanged, the film omitted several side plots. Though the Watership Down warren eventually grew to seventeen rabbits, with the additions of Strawberry, Holly, Bluebell, and three hutch rabbits liberated"
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC. Under the command of Captain Lee Crane and with Admiral Harriman Nelson, Vice-Admiral B. J. Crawford, Congressman Llewellyn Parker, and psychologist Susan Hiller aboard, the nuclear-powered submarine USOS. ""Seaview"" goes under the Arctic"
"series) in terms of its effect on setting in the novels. Following the success of ""Watership Down"", Richard Adams would go on to invent another constructed language for his Beklan novels, ""Shardik"" (1974) and ""Maia"" (1984). Some fans of the book, including authors and academics, have written about the words and phrases extant in the corpus of ""Watership Down"" and have analyzed the language and its variations on a linguistic level. Within the books, the rabbits' use of Lapine is presented to readers as Standard English with the inclusion of a number of specialized Lapine lexical terms. Albert Valdman notes"
"a two-part, two-hour dramatization of ""Watership Down"" by Neville Teller was broadcast by BBC Radio 4. In November 2016, a new two-part two-hour dramatization, written by Brian Sibley, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the 1970s, the book was released by Argo Records read by Roy Dotrice, with musical background—music by George Butterworth performed by Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Neville Marriner. In 1984, ""Watership Down"" was adapted into a four-cassette audiobook by John Maher in association with the Australian Broadcasting Company's Renaissance Players. Produced by John Hannaford and narrated by Kerry Francis,"
"take off again, bringing in fuel for the plane and many, many other problems. A subplot involves efforts by the Soviet Union to take the shuttle for themselves. Shuttle Down Shuttle Down is a novel by American author G. Harry Stine, written under the nom de plume Lee Correy. First appearing as a four-part serial in Analog magazine between December 1980 and March 1981, the novel was later published by Ballantine/Del Rey in 1981, with a second edition following in 1985. The book can best be described as an early form of the techno-thriller genre, later popularized by authors such"
"Fire Down Below (1957 film) Fire Down Below is a 1957 Anglo-American adventure drama film with a screenplay written by novelist Irwin Shaw, starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, and directed by Robert Parrish. Based on Max Catto's 1954 novel with the same title, the picture was made by Warwick Films on location in Trinidad and Tobago, in Technicolor and CinemaScope, and released by Columbia Pictures. After the Korean War, Americans Tony (Lemmon) and Felix (Mitchum) own a tramp boat, the ""Ruby"", which they use for small-scale smuggling around the Caribbean, along with a third crewman, Jimmy Jean"
"The exhibit included art inspired by the book ""Watership Down"" by over 100 artists. Greg Simkins Greg ""Craola"" Simkins (born February 28, 1975) is an American artist. Greg Simkins was born in Torrance, California, slightly south of Los Angeles. His artistic ambitions bloomed at age three with drawings inspired by cartoons and books. Some of these works, such as ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" by C.S. Lewis, ""The Phantom Tollbooth"" by Norton Juster, and ""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams, still find reference in his art. He grew up with a variety of animals, including a number of rabbits, which often appear"
"Ecchinswell Ecchinswell is a village in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Watership Down, location of Richard Adams' novel of the same name, is just south of Ecchinswell. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also lies to the south. Part of the hill is a biological SSSI, first notified in 1978. The hill has a partially completed Iron Age hill fort on its summit, and the surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Ladle Hill and Watership Down are easily accessed from the Wayfarer's Walk cross-county footpath that passes through the parish."
"All Fall Down (Carter novel) All Fall Down (2015) is a young adult novel by teen-fiction author Ally Carter. It is the first book in the Embassy Row series set in and around the diplomatic quarter of a Mediterranean capital city. The concept for the book was in the making from 2007, but only began being written in 2013. The second book of the series, ""See How They Run"", was released on December 22, 2015. The third, and final book in the series, ""Take The Key And Lock Her Up"", was released at the end of December, 2016; with some"
"of other people have seen their histories in that book...some people see it as an allegory for struggles against the Cold War, fascism, extremism...a protest against materialism, against the corporate state. ""Watership Down"" can be Ireland after the famine, Rwanda after the massacres."" Kadish has praised both the fantasy genre and ""Watership Down"" for its ""motifs [that] hit home in every culture...all passersby are welcome to bring their own subplots and plug into the archetype."" Adams won the 1972 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He also won the annual"
"Down to a Sunless Sea (Lin Carter novel) Down to a Sunless Sea is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the fourth in his Edgar Rice Burroughs- and Leigh Brackett-inspired series The Mysteries of Mars. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1984 and reissued in hardcover and trade paperback by Wildside Press in February 2008. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem ""Kubla Khan"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. David Graham wrote a post-apocalyptic novel with the same title (), also derived from the same Coleridge poem."
"Freefolk Freefolk is a village in Hampshire, England. It lies to the west and almost directly alongside the village of Laverstoke; the two villages are separated by the River Test. It is about east of Whitchurch and west of Overton on the B3400 road between Basingstoke and Andover. In the village is an inn named the ""Watership Down"", known locally as ""the jerry"". Built in 1840, it was called the Freefolk Arms but was renamed in honour of local author Richard Adams and his book ""Watership Down"", which took its name from the down about to the north of the"
"obituary of Collings, to accept ""a book as bizarre by an unknown writer which had been turned down by the major London publishers; but,"" she continued, ""it was also dazzlingly brave and intuitive."" Collings had little capital and could not pay an advance but ""he got a review copy onto every desk in London that mattered."" Adams wrote that it was Collings who gave ""Watership Down"" its title. There was a second edition in 1973. Macmillan USA, then a media giant, published the first U.S. edition in 1974 and a Dutch edition was also published that year by Het Spectrum."
"was written by Mike Batt for ""Watership Down"", with director Martin Rosen requesting a song about death. It plays when the rabbit Hazel, the lead character in the film, almost dies after being wounded by a farmer's gun. The song was very successful in the United Kingdom, staying at number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks in 1979, selling over one million copies, becoming the biggest-selling single of the year. In the United States, it failed to reach the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It reached #27 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song) ""Bright"
"book. In April 2016 it was announced that the series would be a co-production between the BBC and Netflix, and would consist of four one-hour episodes. The series will have a budget of £20 million. The four episode mini-series will premiere on the BBC and Netflix on 23 December 2018, with the voice talents of James McAvoy as Hazel, John Boyega as Bigwig, and Ben Kingsley as General Woundwort. In 2006, ""Watership Down"" was again adapted for the stage, this time by Rona Munro. It ran at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. Directed by Melly Still, the cast included Matthew"
"and its sign proclaims it a ""15th C. Rooming Inn"". The nearby Watership Down is the setting for the 1972 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Watership Down was also the site of the 1982 World Field Archery Championship put on by the Overton Black Arrows archery club from the nearby village of Overton. The actress Lavinia Fenton, most famous for her role as the first Polly Peachum in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, was lover and then wife of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton of the parish. Their eldest son, Rev. Charles Powlett, was briefly vicar"
"Gray Lady Down Gray Lady Down is a 1978 American submarine disaster film by Universal Studios starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and Rosemary Forsyth, and includes the feature film debut of Christopher Reeve. It is based on David Lavallee's 1971 novel ""Event 1000"". Aging, respected Captain Paul Blanchard (Heston) is on his final submarine tour before promotion to command of a submarine squadron (COMSUBRON). Surfaced and returning to port, the submarine, USS ""Neptune"", is struck by a Norwegian freighter enroute to New York in heavy fog. With the engine room flooded and its main"
"Down by the River (novel) Down by the River is a 1997 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel depicts the response of a local community the a girl, Mary, abuse by her father being exposed to their local community when she tries to get an abortion. The ensuing legal battle in a country which bans abortions. The novel was based on a real life story from 1992, when a similar case ignited controversy in both Ireland and the UK. The novel highlights the psychological realities of such attention on the girl, as she struggles with her abuse. Reception"