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Tales from Watership Down Audiobook
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Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams’s classic Watership Down, a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award.
Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting readers with the animal characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah. These compelling tales include all-new adventures, with the younger generation of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age that existed before they were born.
Part One includes traditional lore on the character El-ahrairah. Part Two shares tales of his adventures as he and Rabscuttle return home after their encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inlé. Part Three recounts the adventures of Hazel and his companions as they establish their warren on Watership Down after their defeat of General Woundwort.
Tales from Watership Down enchants us once again with stories of courage and survival, and the millions of readers who enjoyed Watership Down now have the chance to re-enter this unique and spellbinding world.
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“Simon Vance brings the audiobook to life, employing his vast range of vocal skills to give its huge cast unique voices, accents, and personalities…Hazel’s voice rings with confidence and compassion as he leads his warren and invites migrant rabbits into a safe haven.”
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“Utterly captivating.”
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“It’s grand to see Mr. Adams’s characters again.”
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“Adams is a master of characterization and description—and his rabbit vocabulary is priceless…Tales From Watership Down is the sort of work that can transport the reader to a parallel existence.”
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“A return to the rabbit world so memorably conjured by Richard Adams in Watership Down…Affectionate, compelling, and oddly convincing.”
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
“Memorable animal personalities are still very talky and carry their anthropomorphism with the same grace…A sure hit with all those who have loved the first book.”
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“Mystical, occasionally allegorical, full of whimsy, rich in vivid descriptions of the rabbits’ society and of the natural world, the tales are often suspenseful, frequently amusing, and invariably clever.”
— Publishers Weekly
Tales from Watership Down Listener Reviews
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Ansric, 4/29/2024
About Richard Adams
Richard Adams (1920–2016) wrote many novels and short stories, including Watership Down and Shardik. Watership Down hit the top of the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for eight months, eventually becoming Penguin Books’ all-time bestseller. He grew up in Berkshire, England, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the civil service. The success of Watership Down allowed him to leave that work and write full time.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.