Watership Down The title refers to the rabbits' destination, Watership Down, a hill in the north of Hampshire, England, near the area where Adams grew up. The story began as tales that Richard Adams told his young daughters Juliet and Rosamond during long car journeys. As he explained in 2007, he "began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of [his] head, as [they] were driving along." The daughters insisted he write it down—"they were very, very persistent". After some delay he began writing in the evenings and completed it 18 months later. The book is dedicated to
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