Best Selling Books by Richard Adams

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel captures Richard Adams''s epic tale of courage, friendship, hope, and survival. Spectacularly adapted by award-winning author James Sturm and gorgeously illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin. ''Every page of this adaptation is a loving tribute to Richard Adams''s masterpiece'' - Andrew Peterson, author of The Wingfeather Saga. For more than 50 years, Watership Down has charmed readers across the world, and now this highly anticipated graphic novel adaptation is set to delight devoted readers and bring this beloved classic to a new generation. ''Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us.'' Also available: Watership Down: 9780241655702 Watership Down Clothbound Classic: 9780241655702

In this bulletin an attempt is made to bring together in one place comprehensive statistics of fertilizer production, consumption, foreign trade, and kindred topics, as they relate to the United States . Also included are data on agricultural liming materials , gypsum, and peat. This compilation should serve, among other things, as an aid in charting the progress in the several phases of the subject; in evaluating national, regional, and State trends in the use of fertilizers and related materials; in forecasting their requirements for future use; in developing programs for expanding their production with respect to quantities and types of products and to plant location; in studies of the economics of their use in relation to farm income, crop production, and land-management practices; and in guiding their allocation in time of emergency.

Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down'' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love of nature. His years at prep and public school, at Oxford and in the army are all vividly described, and their influence on the recurrent themes in his writing of battle, leadership, friendship, bullying, solitude and longing made plain.

The story of the American Civil War seen through the eyes of Traveller, Robert E. Lee''s horse.

Aptly entitled The Moon Hoax, the current publication is an attempt (and a rather successful one, it can be said) by the author to fool the masses into thinking that the moon is inhabited by fellow human beings. He does this by mimicking a scientific report writing supposedly penned by an astronomer (who, of course, is mere fiction), Sir John Herschel.

Periodic information on fertilizer use by crops provides reference points that are widely used by public and private agencies and by individuals. Identification of changes in levels and patterns of fertilizer use is a necessary part of analysis of changes in farm technology and of farm adjustment problems closely related to these changes. The reference points provided by the estimates presented here, together with information on crop yield response to changing technology, are useful in projecting potentials in crop production and in projecting demand for fertilizer and other nonfarm inputs. This report includes estimates of use of principal plant nutrients on individual crops for the 50 States, and for State parts of agricultural subregions for the 48 contiguous States, for whole subregions, and for the United States by major regions.

The adventures of two young inexperienced Tygers who set out from Victorian England into the timeless unknown.

Cessant d''être les Jeannot de notre enfance et le gibier des Raboliot, voici que les lapins deviennent pour la première fois les héros d''une épopée. Ce récit a la simplicité des grands mythes. Comme eux, il est tissé de symboles : le sang versé, l''herbe rase et l''herbe haute. l''oiseau noir et l''oiseau blanc, le grand chien qui vous pourchasse et qui vous sauve sans le savoir, l''eau qui noie ou qui vous porte, la " grande eau " que les lapins n''ont jamais vue et dont ils rêvent, et enfin ces innombrables petites fleurs des champs, avec lesquelles ils entretiennent une amitié complice et gourmande, incarnations fugaces du temps qui passe et de la Mort, leur éternelle compagne. Fable ? Œuvre de moraliste ? Livre de sagesse ? Richard Adams a simplement raconté une histoire - mais en lui prêtant une telle fraîcheur, une telle poésie et tant de mystérieux échos que nous croyons reconnaître une odyssée venue du fond des siècles. A nous de l''interpréter à notre façon, ou mieux de la lire avec des yeux d''enfant.