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Watership down full book5/21/2023 ![]() Organisers of the conference are looking forward to a conference packed with a wealth of perspectives on the beloved classic. Today several million copies have been sold worldwide, it has been translated into well over 20 languages and has been adapted several times, including as a 1978 feature-length animated film, and most recently in 2018 as a major animated TV series by BBC/Netflix. ![]() The story of Watership Down began as tales about rabbits Hazel and Fiver that Adams told his young daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, during long car journeys. Now academics at the University of Glasgow and Cardiff University are to host a conference to celebrate Richard Adams’ debut novel on its 50 th anniversary and examine its continuing appeal to children over five decades. Nearly 50 years on, a story of a group of rabbits escaping the destruction of their warren has become a children’s classic and has been adapted for film and TV. ![]() ![]() Submitted to more than 30 publishers, Watership Down finally hit bookshelves in November 1972 thanks to the foresight of the small, independent Rex Collings. ![]() It was a book that nearly didn’t get published. ![]()
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