Shardik [ First Avon Printing, Feb. 1976 ] (the pulse-pounding epic novel of a man, a civilization, and the power of God in the great bear, Shardik...)

Richard Adams's follow-up to his bestseller "Watership Down." A pulse-pounding epic fantasy novel of a man, a primitive civilization and the power of a God in the form of a great bear named Shardik. A fascinatingly entertaining tale of how man decides what is God and what God stands for, in this powerful novel Adams never really lets the reader know whether Shardik is God or actually only a huge bear but what becomes clear is man's intentions, the good & evil done in the name of God.