<div> <p>Richard Adams the author of <em>Watership Down</em> creates a lyrical and engrossing tale a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes Snitter and Rowf.</p> <p>After being horribly mistreated at a government animal-research facility Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation—and terror—of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call “the tod” the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague.</p> </div>