Watership Down the story was "nothing like that at all." Adams said that the rabbits in Watership Down did not worship, however, "they believed passionately in El-ahrairah". Adams explained that he meant the book to be, "only a made-up story... in no sense an allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls". Instead, he explained, the "let-in" religious stories of El-ahrairah were meant more as legendary tales, similar to a rabbit Robin Hood, and that these stories were interspersed throughout the book as humorous interjections to the often "grim"
David Clement-Davies his leadership. Rannoch escapes from the herd, but deep down in his heart, he knows that he must return, to unite the deer, and end Sgorr's reign of terror. Richard Adams, author of the classic "Watership Down", called "Fire Bringer" 'one of the best anthropomorphic fantasies known to him'. It was long-listed as a first novel for the Carnegie Medal in the UK. "Fire Bringer" and "The Sight" have received starred Kirkus Reviews, Famils Awards in the US, and made him a Booksense 76 Collection choice. Clement-Davies's second novel, "The Sight", is set in Transylvania (modern-day Romania), and is about