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Adams, Richard

 

Richard Adams

May 9, 1920

Born in Newbury, Berkshire, England

Late-blooming author of Watership Down. If you've read Watership Down, don't expect more of the same from his other books.

 

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"A little distance away, something unimaginably heavy was moving, and this movement was beating the ground like a drum."

 

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Bibliography

Fiction

Watership Down - 1972

Shardik - 1974

The Plague Dogs - 1977

The Girl in a Swing - 1980

The Iron Wolf & Other Stories - 1980

The Legend of Te Tuna - 1982

Maia - 1984

Traveller - 1988

Tales From Watership Down - 1996

The Outlandish Knight - 1999

Daniel - 2006

 

Nonfiction

Nature Day and Night - 1978

Voyage Through the Antarctic - 1982

The Day Gone By - 1990

 

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