Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Exodus
By Janet Adam Smith
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
Macmillan, 419 pp., $6.95
Disaster threatens a tribe. Warned by a prophet, led by a wily hero, a small remnant escape to find a new homeland. Their exodus is beset by enemies who swoop from the sky, set ambushes on the ground, infect the air with poison that can blind. On their progress they meet other tribes: one that relishes comfort and takes no thought for the morrow; another that lives in captivity and has lost the power to take decisions; a third so obsessed with security that it has given up all individual freedom.
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