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    Traveller

    By Richard Adams

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    “Call Traveller, and you will get home safely”.‘Traveller’ is the story of the American Civil war as seen through the eyes of Traveller, famous horse of the great Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Now old and in retirement in the stable of his master, the beautiful iron-grey Traveller relates the story of his life to the stable cat Tom. Traveller’s understanding, feelings and impressions about events and people sometimes miss the mark, but his loyalty to the South, courage in battle, utter devotion to his master, and his faithful service through the horrors of what has been called the first Industrial war, shine through. His horse nature and his honest simplicity, as revealed in his tale, contrast with the horrors, cruelty and complications of war in this poignant and moving animal story. As in ‘Watership Down’, the book with rabbits as heroes, Adams enters imaginatively into the mind and heart of an animal to tell a story with messages about humankind that are not always flattering to the ‘higher’ species.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWatership Down Enterprises
    Release dateNov 27, 2014
    ISBN9781783015825
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    Richard Adams

    Richard Adams (1920–2016) was educated at Bradfield College and Worcester College, Oxford. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the civil service. In the mid-1960s he completed his first novel, Watership Down, for which he struggled for several years to find a publisher. It was eventually awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction for 1972. He would go on to publish several more books, including Shardik, Tales from Watership Down, Maia, The Plague Dogs, and The Girl in a Swing.

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    • 4/5
      Horse to Robert E. Lee, you'd probably have privy to moments like no other possible entity in that historical niche, right? I tend to like stories told by animals...
    • 2/5
      I really did not like this book. I'm going to have to reread Watership Down to remind myself that Adams can be a good author. Part of it is that I am _not_ a Civil War buff - perhaps if one were, one would enjoy reading the war narrated by a horse. I spent most of the book as confused about the bigger picture as Traveller was. Then there were a lot of very strange choices made by the author - from having Traveller speak in heavy dialect (he mentions getting help with it, in the acknowledgements), to the peculiar paragraphs scattered throughout (mostly as chapter headers) written in the (somewhat florid) style of the period, in present tense, but with future knowledge ("This siege...is to last for nine and half months, until the beginning of April, 1865."). Having most (not all) of the generals referred to by nicknames (Red Shirt, Cap-in-his-eyes, Jine-the-Cavalry...) only made the whole thing more confusing. Traveller's language and understanding waver randomly - he starts out referring to "bangs", later starts calling them "guns", then randomly switches back and forth between the terms. He never does learn a name for flags or "colors" - calls them "cloth on sticks" throughout, except once. I don't know. It just did not work for me at all - not the characters (which were pretty faintly sketched in), not the events (as I said above, I never knew what was going on or why - which is, I suppose, appropriate for a war narrated by a horse...), not the language. Oh, and racism in language too - not in the story, just in how Adams-through-Traveller referred to the "black fellas" or later "darkies" serving the white folk. Again, appropriate for the times - but could just as easily have been left out, like Traveller's dialect. The rabbits didn't speak broad Yorkshire, and it made them richer characters that they didn't. I can't complain that the "black fellas" didn't get more depth as characters, because neither did anyone else, including "Marse Roberts" (General Lee). So I was mostly bored except when I was annoyed - not something I'm pleased to have read (except in the sense that I'm done, and never have to read this again!), and certainly not something I'd ever reread.
    • 2/5
      The Civil War as told through the eyes of General Lee's horse, Traveller. Unique idea, very long book. This probably would have been a great short story, but there is only so much a horse can observe and comment in and this quickly became very repetative. I must say that this book is the only I've ever read told from the Southern POV and in that respect it certainly opened my eyes.
    • 4/5
      I read this as part of a book club and it's one of those books that has stayed with me for a long time. I remember a lot of the people from the book club did not like it, but I found the story very interesting. Perhaps it's my love of horses?Traveller is General Robert Lee's horse and tells the tale of some of the things he did during the Civil War, and life at that time from a horse's perspective.
    • 3/5
      I love Watership Down and am a Civil War buff but this equine perspective is truly asinine. Talking straight from the horse's mouth, Adams stays rigidly within biographical boundaries without any leaps of imagination. A dull exercise, it is neither a worthy novel nor an interesting biography.