Watership Down by Richard Adams is a great fiction book about a group of rabbits who live in Hampshire County, England. The rabbits are anthropomorphized, possessing their own culture, language(Lapine), poetry, and mythology. The story starts in the Sandleford warren with Fiver, a runt rabbit (who is a seer) recieving a vision of the warren's destruction. He and elder brother Hazel try to talk their chief rabbit into evacuating the warren, but the chief rabbit disagrees. Hazel and Fiver manage to convince a small band of rabbits to come with them, including 2 Owsla(the 'police') Bigwig, and Silver to come with them.
Finally, after a long journey (by rabbit standards: less than 5 miles), the group, reaches Watership Down, a hill in Hampshire County. They establish a warren, however, they are uncertain about the future, as they have no does to continue the warren.The rest of the book is spent trying to get more does, and they go through many difficulties, including a fight against a large warren, called Efrafa. For this they get the help of a large bird named Kehaar.Throughout the book, only real place names are used also, though the animals have a language, mythology, and can understand some ideas (e.g. wood floats, which came in use to them when crossing a river, and later when escaping from the Efrafans), that most animals can't, these rabbits can physically do only what real rabbits can. This was a great and interesting book which I recommend you read.
I rate this book 7 out of 10.
