‘Watership Down’ author Richard Adams dies at 96

British novelist Richard Adams died Saturday. He was 96.

Adams became one of the world’s best-selling authors with his first book, “Watership Down,” a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic perils explored Homeric themes of exile, courage and survival.

Prior to writing "Watership Down," Adams worked most of his life as a civil servant in London who wrote government reports on the environment.

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