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4 unusual facts about Watership Down


Bo Hansson

He returned once again to Studio Decibel and began work on recordings that were inspired by another book; Richard Adams' Watership Down.

1977 Music Inspired by Watership Down, Charisma (released in Sweden as El-Ahrairah)

Ecchinswell

Nuthanger Farm at Ecchinswell features extensively in Richard Adams' Watership Down.

The Graveyard Game

They spend time in the country of "The Innocents", an imagined novel combining elements of Animal Farm and Watership Down.


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Combe Gibbet

The "Combe Gibbet" Race takes in the highest hill in the South East of England; Walbury Hill, the highest in Hampshire; Pilot Hill as well as Ladle Hill and the edge of Watership Down before entering Overton the source of the River Test.

Shardik

Adams, famous for writing stories from animals' point of view (Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and Traveller), here creates a story in which the animal, Shardik the Great Bear, is an antagonistic force that generates the entire plot and yet whose status remains ambiguous.


see also

Richard Adams

The Phoenix Tree (1980, a collection by various authors, includes "The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle" from Watership Down) ISBN 978-0-380-76380-1

The Fugue

The Fugue is a dark bay or brown filly with a white star and stripe and white socks on her hind legs bred by her owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Watership Down stud.