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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Watership Down
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(1972) The bestselling first book of Richard Adams (b. 1920), who wrote it when he was a civil servant in the Department of the Environment. Told originally to his own daughters, the story follows a colony of rabbits (including Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig) as they are forced by a building development to move from their warren; they find a new home on Watership Down (in north Hampshire, just west of Kingsclere). The book's appeal reached far beyond the intended audience of children, partly because the social activities of the rabbits were treated so seriously. In this the author acknowledged his indebtedness to The Private Life of the Rabbit (1964), by Ronald Lockley.
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