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The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs( )
Author: Adams, Richard
Read by: Cosham, Ralph
ISBN:978-1-4417-8926-6
Publication Date:Jul 2011
Publisher:Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.

After being horribly mistreated at a government animal-research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation--and terror--of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call "the tod," the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are...
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Book Details
Pages:11
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 5.7 Inches
Author Biography
Adams, Richard (Author)
Richard George Adams was born in Newbury, England on May 9, 1920. He enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1938, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. During the war, he served with the British airborne forces in the Middle East and India. After the war, he returned to Oxford and received a degree in history in 1948. He joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and worked his way up over 20 years to a senior post in the clean-air section of the environmental department. He retired in 1974 to become a full-time writer.

His first his novel, Watership Down, was published in 1972. It received the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 1972 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1973. His other books include Shardik, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, and Tales from Watership Down. He also wrote an autobiography entitled The Day Gone By. He died on December 24, 2016 at the age of 96.

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