THE DAY GONE BY: An Autobiography

The memoirs of Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down , recreate his childhood in Berkshire during the mid-1920s. They cover his family, his schooldays at Bradfield College and his time spent at Oxford before he was called up in July 1940. They depict a society that disappeared after the war. Richard Adams' other books include Shardik , Nature Through the Seasons , The Tyger Voyage , The Plague Dogs , A Nature Diary and Voyage Through the Antarctic .