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Written by Richard Adams - Audio book performed by Nigel Havers - Unabridged Stories - Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (1996)

Nearly a quarter century after the publication of Watership Down, one of the century's best-loved works of imaginative literature--the superb storyteller Richard Adams re-enters that unique and special world to tell us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort.

Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we listen in as Dandelion, the rabbits' master storyteller, relates the thrilling adventures experienced by Al-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, and his stalwart, Rabscuttle, during the long journey home after their terrible encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inlé (as narrated in Watership Down). Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down-- Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions---including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel.

All listeners-- the millions who remember Watership Down with the deepest affection, and also those for whom this volume will be their first encounter with the rabbits---will find these nineteen tales utterly compelling, the fruit of Richard Adams spellbinding narrative power and ability to conjure up a world that is at the same time both real and unreal.

Author Biography: Richard Adams was born in 1920. In the mid-sixties he completed his first novel, Watership Down, the story of which he originally told his children to while away time on a long car journey. His many other books include the novels Shardik, The Plague Dogs, The Girl in a Swing, Maia and, Traveller; his autobiography The Day Gone By; and several books on the natural world. He and his wife, who have two daughters, live in the South of England.