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"Lapine" is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for the novel, where it is spoken by the rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams's 1996 sequel, Tales from Watership Down, and has appeared in both the film and television adaptations. The language fragments in the books consist of a few dozen distinct words, used ...
LC Class. PZ4.A2163 Pl PR6051.D345. The Plague Dogs is a novel by English author Richard Adams, first published in 1977 by Allen Lane. The book centres around the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. As in Adams' debut novel, Watership Down (1972), the ...
Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) [2] was an English novelist whose works include Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at Oxford before serving in the British Army during World War II. After completing his studies, he joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after ...
198pp. ISBN. 0-09-180166-4. Preceded by. 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 ...
0-380-50997-0 (first edition, hardback) OCLC. 1130141. Followed by. Maia. Shardik is a 1974 fantasy novel by Richard Adams. Shardik is his second novel (after Watership Down 1972, followed by Nature Through the Seasons 1975), and first of two novels set in the fictional Beklan Empire. The events revolve around the discovery, capture and ...
The Ship's Cat, also known under its full title of The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres, is a 1977 children's narrative poem that was written by Richard Adams with illustrations by Alan Aldridge.
Print (hardback & paperback) ISBN. 0-14-006476-1. OCLC. 13397594. Preceded by. Shardik. Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams, published in 1984. It is set in the Beklan Empire, the fictional world of Adams's 1974 novel Shardik, to which it stands as a loose prequel, taking place a few years earlier.
Traveller – A gray American Saddlebred gelding with a dark mane. The narrator of the novel. Originally named Jeff Davis. Richmond – An aggressive bay stallion belonging to "Marse Robert" (Robert E. Lee). Died of colic. Brown-Roan – Also known as The Roan. A good-natured gelding of Marse Robert's.