I love so much how Adams really conveys the stress of being a rabbit. I mean this in the best way possible, but I've never been so stressed out reading a book as when I was reading Watership Down. The journey from Sandleford to Watership Down is, to a human, a five-mile walk in the English countryside. But to a rabbit, it's a lengthy journey through treacherous terrain, with enemies at every turn and constant environmental dangers, and Adams did an awesome job showing that.
This peaceful stream is the River Enborne that Pipkin and Fiver were too weak to swim:
This idyllic field is the common whose crossing was so miserable and demoralizing that Hawkbit, Speedwell, and Acorn wanted to give up and go home:
Thousand enemies for real! Everything is so so big and dangerous! And those rabbits are being so so brave about it!





















