![]() ![]() He won a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, but his education was interrupted by World War Two and he served for five years in the Army before returning to his studies. "It made me realise, in an instant, that rabbits were things and that it was only in a baby's world that they were not." He suffered the fate of many middle-class boys of the period when he was sent to boarding school at the age of nine, where, by all accounts, he had a miserable time. One of his earliest memories was seeing a local man pushing a handcart full of dead rabbits down the street. He was the son of a country doctor and was brought up in the rolling countryside with views towards the real Watership Down, on the Hampshire border. ![]() Richard George Adams was born on, in Newbury, Berkshire. Richard Adams spent his first 52 years in relative anonymity.Īnd when he did complete a book that he wrote, he struggled to find anyone to publish it. ![]()
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