40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits -Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our time Sandleford Warren is in danger Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange world