What Is Watership Down?

Watership Down is the name of a best-selling novel by Richard Adams. It is a book about a group of rabbits. The book derives its name from a hill which is situated in the north of the county of Hampshire.

The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams grew up in the country and based his book on a collection of stories he told his children during the family trips to the countryside. Watership Down was rejected by publishers thirteen times. On the fourteenth attempt, a publisher called Rex Collings Limited agreed to publish it in the United Kingdom in the year 1972.

The rabbits in Watership Down are not the typical fictional rabbits that own gadgets or wear clothes, but they are realistic and are very much like their counterparts in the wild. They speak their own rabbit language known as Lapine. Watership Down was awarded the Carnegie Medal in the year 1972.