Tales from Watership Down Tales from Watership Down Tales from Watership Down is a collection of 19 short stories by Richard Adams, published in 1996 as a follow-up to Adams's highly successful 1972 novel about rabbits, "Watership Down". It consists of a number of short stories of rabbit mythology, followed by several chapters featuring many of the characters introduced in the earlier book. Like its predecessor, "Tales from Watership Down" features epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter and a Lapine glossary. "Tales from Watership Down" is in three parts: the first consists of five traditional tales of El-ahrairah and two more modern rabbit
Richard Adams age of 96 in Oxford, England from complications of a blood disorder. In 1949, Adams married (Barbara) Elizabeth, daughter of R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Edward Fox Dyke Acland, son of the barrister and judge Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland, whose father, the scientist Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (himself created a baronet of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford) descended from the Acland baronets of Columb John. Until his death, he lived with his wife in Whitchurch, within of his birthplace. Their daughters, to whom Adams originally related the tales that became "Watership Down", are Juliet and Rosamond. Richard Adams Richard George Adams (9 May