Don Quixote - King's Island, Ohio
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N 39° 20.645 W 084° 16.099
16S E 735408 N 4358520
From the novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. ?Located outside a candy store at King's Island Amusement park. It has no relationship to the store.
Waymark Code: WM9DMP
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2010
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Text adapted from
Wikipedia.
Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.
Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible.
He decides to go out as a knight-errant in search of adventure. He dons an old suit of armor, renames himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha," and names his skinny horse "Rocinante".
Don Quixote approaches his neighbor, Sancho Panza, and asks him to be his squire, promising him governorship of an island. The dull-witted Sancho agrees, and the pair sneak off in the early dawn. It is here that their series of famous adventures begin, starting with Don Quixote's attack on windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants.
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