THE PLAGUE DOGS 

by
RICHARD ADAMS
(Author of Watership Down)

With illustrations and diagrams by
A. WAINWRIGHT

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• Pictorial Hardcover with dust jacket; 461 pages; Size Approx. 5 1/2 X 8 3/4.
• Published by The Chaucer Press; 1978.

Details: "With his first two novels, Watership Down and Shardik, Richard Adams has achieved world-wide acclaim.  The Plague Dogs, his third novel, confirms his stature as a writer.  It is the most exciting and moving book he has yet written.
     Set in the Lake District, it recounts the adventures of two dogs who escape from an establishment where experiments are carried out on animals for so-called scientific reasons.  Both dogs have suffered horribly.  Once free, they join forces with a fox and attempt to live wild, killing and stealing what they can.  Locally, every man's hand is soon against them; and national alarm breaks out when it is learned that they may be carriers of the bubonic plague with which scientists at the research station have been experimenting.  Detachments of the army with helicopter support, government officials, the police, journalists and naturalists bring the story to an unexpected close.
     As with Richard Adams's other novels, the story can be enjoyed at any level from thrilling narrative to philosophical debate.  At the core of this book is the tragic dilemma of dog fleeing man's cruelty yet constrained to rely on many for his survival.  In part, the book is an exciting escape story; in part, an impassioned plea for a more sensitive, more responsible attitude towards the whole natural world.  Richard Adams evokes the Lakeland setting with the precise knowledge of one who knows and loves it; and as a novelist he brings it before us in all its astonishing beauty."  (dust jacket flap)
     The book has a brown hard cover binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine;  illustration on the front cover and spine in black; black and white illustrations.
     A fine addition for your bookshelf!

Condition:  The book is in very good condition with a firm binding and clean pages. The dust jacket is in very good condition.

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