I first read Watership Down by richard adams as a teenager and I was enthralled by the way there was almost no human activity in the book at all . Adams must be very passionate about animals to be able to write about them in this way .
Anyway recently I found a box set by him at a car boot sale and Im about a quarter of the way through the Plague Dogs yet again very animal orientated the two dogs have escaped from an animal testing facility one has been plunged into a tank of water daily to see how long it will fight to stay alive which was so traumatic for me to read about ive had to put it down for a while but not for long as its too good not to read.