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Don Quixote (Young Reading)
What you need to know before your trail
Don Quixote thinks he’s a knight, just like in days of old. He even has a squire. Of course, these days, there are no dragons to fight. But a thing like that doesn’t stop him, as he drags his squire on one madcap adventure after another.
Travel Guide
La Mancha
The area is kept vague in the stories and no real names of towns etc are given. This was a deliberate action on the part of Cervantes’
“En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.”
(Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.)
El Toboso is where Don Quixote goes to seek Dulcinea’s blessings. The location of the village has never been agreed on by scholars and readers. Even Cervantes himself was vague.
Don Quixote sets out with Sancho Panza on a life of chivalric adventures in a world no longer governed by chivalric values. He wanders Spain and finds adventure in the strangest places and with the most unusual people he meets along the way.
Cervantes narrates the action himself claiming to be translating the earlier work of Cide Hamete Benengeli, a Moor who is said to have written about the true historical adventures of Don Quixote
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Don Quixote (Young Reading)
Author/Guide: Mary Sebag Montefiore Destination: La Mancha Departure Time: 1600s
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