Презентация на тему по английскому языку Ричард Адамс

School from 1926–1933, and then Bradfield College from 1933–1938. In 1938,

he went to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. In July 1940, shortly after the declaration of war between Britain and Germany, Adams was called up to join the British Army. He was posted to the Royal Army Service Corps and was selected for the Airborne Company. He served in Palestine, Europe and the Far East, but saw no direct action against either the Germans or the Japanese.

After being released from the army in 1946, Adams

returned to Worcester College to continue his studies for a further two years. He took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and Master of Arts in 1953. After his BA graduation in 1948, Adams joined the British Civil Service and held the rank of Assistant Secretary  to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, later part of the Department of the Environment. It was during this period that he began writing fiction in his spare time.

Adams Is the Author
Adams had originally begun telling

the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, and they insisted that he publish it as a book. It took two years to write. In 1972,  Rex Collings published the work Watership Down. The book gained international acclaim almost immediately.

President of the RSPCA. He also made a voyage through the Antarctic in

the company of Ronald Lockley, the well-known ornithologist.

with a party in his hometown of Whitchurch, Hampshire. Just

before his 90th birthday, he wrote a new story for a charity book Gentle Footprints to raise funds for The Born Free Foundation.
Adams currently lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in Whitchurch, Hampshire, within 10 miles (16 km) of his birthplace. Their daughters, to whom Adams originally related the tales that became Watership Down, are Juliet and Rosamond. He has six grandchildren: Lucy, Sarah, Miranda, Grace, Robert, and Maeve.