Richard Adams: Watership Down (1981, Charnwood)
683 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 1981 by Charnwood.
Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and 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.
This was a fun and nice book to read.
It is cool to see a lot of human things described from 'rabbit perspective' with only some of them knowing what to do with something.
I loved the parts where one of the rabbits came up with something smart, without a way to make the other rabbits understand how it worked. Like the boat.
Ich hatte das als Buch schon mal gelesen, nun als Hörspiel. Unter dem Link steht es noch bis zum 4. Dezember 2022 zum Download.
Trotz der vielen Charaktere und Stimmen war es kein Problem der Handlung zu folgen, was mir manchmal bei Hörspielen so geht. Besonders wird mir die Stimme und Sprechweise der Möwe im Gedächtnis bleiben. Sicher werde ich jetzt drandenken, wenn ich so einen Vogel fliegen sehe.
