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1547–1616: The story of Don Quixote in drawings
The Complete Don Quixote
What you need to know before your trail
More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills. Today Don Quixote and his philosophical squire, Sancho Panza, remain among the world’s most popular and entertaining figures, as well as being the archetypes for the tall, thin straight man and his short, stocky comic sidekick. Don Quixote is on a search for adventure and chivalrous quests – and he will not be defeated by such foes as logic, propriety, or sanity. In this terrific adaptation of the Cervantes classic, Rob Davis uses innovative paneling and exquisite artwork to bring the Knight-Errant to life. This is sequential storytelling and art at its finest.
Travel Guide
BookTrail Travel to 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: The Complete Don Quixote
Author/Guide: Rob Davis Destination: La Mancha Departure Time: 1547–1616
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