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Adams  Watership Down  In A Nutshell  Finally, a book that tells
us the honest-to-goodness truth about rabbits. All this time we
thought rabbits were just cute, floppy-eared carrot-eaters with
a penchant for hopping. But as Richard Adams's Watership Down
teaches us, rabbits are actually violent, adventurous creatures,
with a complex culture and mythology.  Okay, maybe you shouldn't
use Watership Down as a textbook to pass that important rabbit
exam in Biology class. This book has as much to do with rabbit
biology as does the legend of the Easter Bunny. Rather, this
puppy reads more like one of those ancient epics, like Virgil's
Aeneid or Jim Henson's Muppets Take Manhattan (only with rabbits
instead of people or Muppets). Richard Adams's novel tells the
story of a group of furry characters who leave their comfortable
(but doomed) home and try to make a new, better one, over the
river and through the woods. They face dangerous predators, like
dogs a