My Watership Down

Three essays on the book and film of Watership Down, and my reaction to them.

Here I've allowed myself to talk about Watership Down and the impact it has had on my life.

I've written three essays, one on the book of Watership Down - how it came to be written and what its impact and appeal might be, another on the film and one on how Watership Down and I have gone through life together. All three are fairly long, six thousand words or more (about the length of two typical Watership Down chapters). I wrote all of them in March 2004, and tried to encapsulate most of what I know about this remarkable book.

Each essay is broken down into fairly managable web page chapters, and all are available as a text file. One is illustrated with items from my collection - items I guarantee you won't be able to see anywhere else.

All essays and webpages © Chris Boyce, 2004.

1. Watership Down and I, my personal thirty year journey:

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2. Watership Down - What's it all about?:

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3. A film is not a book - Watership Down comes to the screen:

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A note of warning! You might be tempted to take these essays and pass them off as your own at school. In a word, DON'T. You'll almost certainly regret it. For a start my style of writing is quite distinctive, and distinctly not that of a school student. Your teacher or lecturer will almost certainly smell a rat. This is also the most prominent Watership Down site on the web. If you've come here, then you can almost guarantee that your teacher came here before you did, while they were preparing your assignment. If they've any teaching skill they've already read these essays, and probably used them in your course material. It is of course all right to read and then take ideas from these essays and express them in your own words. I'm perfectly happy for anyone to do that, just as long as you cite this source in your assignment. This would be a satisfactory citation:
"From 'Watership Down and I'/'Watership Down - what's it all about?'/'A film is not a book - Watership Down comes to the screen', an essay by Chris Boyce; website: http;//mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk/watershp/mywd.htm"