Stand Alone Fantasy Titles, August 2012

A tale of heroism, adventure, and courage reminiscent of The Odyssey, Watership Down is the remarkable story of a warren of rabbits driven to find a new home when one of them, a runt named Fiver, has visions of the destruction of their warren by humans. Fiver can't convince the leaders that what he sees is true, so he and a small band escape the warren and flee to Watership Down and establish a new home. But nothing is without its problems, and soon a nearby militant warren seeks to dominate them. Once you look past the notion that it's a book about rabbits running around, you can find the deeper messages of honor, humanity, ethics, and what it means to be free.