Rocinante
- This article is about the novel. For the airplane, see Rocinante (aircraft).
| Rocinante | |
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| Time frame | April 1971 - December 1971 1992 |
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| Series | Spearfish Lake Series |
| Series number | 1 |
| Chapters | 30 |
| Related | Locations Characters |
Book publication order: 1
Contents
Summary
©1993; Rev. 2001, ©2007
The story is about Jackie Archer and Mark Gravengood as they fly around the country. They begin as strangers and end as husband and wife. Many of the locations and events are real, and are included in the Google Earth Placemarks file referenced above.
Rocinante refers to the name they gave their Cessna 140 airplane, named after the horse ridden by Don Quixote.
John Steinbeck used the same name for his modified camper truck in which he travelled the USA in his 1960 book Travels With Charley. See the Wikipedia article on the book here. By the way, Charley was Steinbeck's poodle.
Vagabonding in the seventies!
The dream that kept Mark sane in Vietnam was spending a whole year wandering the lower forty-eight states by air, like barnstormers did fifty years before. In the last days before leaving, he acquires a traveling companion -- a tall, morose girl named Jackie. They spend months on their aerial odyssey, falling in love along the way, while having adventures all over America that will turn into memories for a lifetime.
Chapters
Part 1 It Runs in the Family
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 |
Part 2 Birds of the Air
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 |
| Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 |
Part 3 The Prodigal Children
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 |
| Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 11 |
Epilogue
| Epilogue |
New Chapter Numbering
Same chapters, just different numbers:
