Watership Down by Richard Adams [U.K. PAPERBACK] 1975 • Penguin Books

Watership Down by Richard Adams VINTAGE U.K. PAPERBACK [1975] PENGUIN BOOKS Rare early U.K. paperback.  5th Penguin printing / 1975.    Clean, tight and seemingly unread vintage reading copy with some creasing to rear cover.  Reads like new with some inevitable tanning to pages.  Front endpaper seems to have been removed.     A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, and winner of the Carnegie Medal, 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 friends, 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.