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The novel "Watership Down" is named after the hill where the story's main characters, a group of rabbits, live. The hill is called Watership Down because it is located near a stream or "watership," which is a term used in the local dialect for a small body of water.

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It may be best to go to your favorite search engine, type in "Watership Down" and click Search to see if you get any hits. That's the best way to go, really.


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His daughters, who he told the story to on the way to Stradford-On-Avon, encouraged him to write the story down. He was finally convinced to when he was reading a story to his daughters (the story wasn't very good) until he finally got so frustrated that he threw the book across the room and said, "Good G-d, I could write better myself." One of his daughters said, "Well why don't you, if you keep saying you did so." So he did, and so we have the book Watership Down by Richard Adams.Source: The new introduction by Richard Adams to the book.


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