Contents

PART I THE JOURNEY

1. The Notice Board

2. The Chief Rabbit

3. Hazel’s Decision

4. The Departure

5. In the Woods

6. The Story of the Blessing of El-ahrairah

7. The Lendri and the River

8. The Crossing

9. The Crow and the Beanfield

10. The Road and the Common

11. Hard Going

12. The Stranger in the Field

13. Hospitality

14. ‘Like Trees in November’

15. The Story of the King’s Lettuce

16. Silverweed

17. The Shining Wire

PART II ON WATERSHIP DOWN

18. Watership Down

19. Fear in the Dark

20. A Honeycomb and a Mouse

21. ‘For El-ahrairah to Cry’

22. The Story of the Trial of El-ahrairah

23. Kehaar

24. Nuthanger Farm

25. The Raid

26. Fiver Beyond

27. ‘You Can’t Imagine it Unless You’ve been There’

28. At the Foot of the Hill

29. Return and Departure

PART III EFRAFA

30. A New Journey

31. The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé

32. Across the Iron Road

33. The Great River

34. General Woundwort

35. Groping

36. Approaching Thunder

37. The Thunder Builds Up

38. The Thunder Breaks

PART IV HAZEL-RAH

39. The Bridges

40. The Way Back

41. The Story of Rowsby Woof and the Fairy Wogdog

42. News at Sunset

43. The Great Patrol

44. A Message from El-ahrairah

45. Nuthanger Farm Again

46. Bigwig Stands his Ground

47. The Sky Suspended

48. Dea ex Machina

49. Hazel Comes Home

50. And Last

Epilogue

PART I

1. The story opens

2. The Enborne crossing

3. The Heather

4. Cowslip’s Warren

PART II

5. The N.E. corner of the Beech Hanger on Watership Down

6. Nuthanger Farm

PART III

7. The combe where Bigwig met the fox

8. Where they crossed the railway line

9. The upper bridge on the Test

10. Where the punt was lying

11. Efrafa. The Crixa

12. The roadless railway arch

PART IV

13. The lower bridge and the weed pool

14. The copse where the fox struck