The Day Gone By: An Autobiography

by RichardAdams (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $4.65

  First volume of the autobiography of Richard Adams covering his early life in Taunton, undergraduate days at Oxford and experiences across Omagh, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt, Normandy, Denmark, Singapore and Bombay between 1940 and 1947. The account ends with Adams giving Latin tuition to the girl next-door who became his future wife. Adams' early years should be of particular interest to any devotee of the novels since they concern a plethora of incidents which first fired his enthusiasm for nature. The book may be of particular interest to anyone interested in the social history of the period from 1920 to the aftermath of World War II.

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $4.72

  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 .