The memoirs of Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, recreate his childhood in Berkshire during the mid-1920s. They cover his family, his schooldays at Bradfield College and his time spent at Oxford before he was called up in July 1940. They depict a society that disappeared after the war. Richard Adams' other books include Shardik, Nature Through the Seasons, The Tyger Voyage, The Plague Dogs, A Nature Diary and Voyage Through the Antarctic.