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T’S 50 years since the celebrated children’s novel was published, as few of us will have missed (). Much of the publicity has, however, been about how it came to be written, as Richard Adams’s way of keeping his daughters occupied on long car journeys. That’s a great story, but there has been remarkably little focus on the place where it is set. Yet what drew me to in my