V poiskah edinoroga

Huan Eslava Galan - izvestnyy ispanskiy pisatel', istorik, avtor pochti shesti desyatkov knig, otmechennyh naibolee pochetnymi literaturnymi premiyami. Deystvie romana "V poiskah edinoroga" proishodit v XV veke v Kastilii. Korol' Enrike IV, prozvannyy Impotentom, snaryazhaet otryad dlya vypolneniya krayne opasnogo zadaniya: nado dobyt' rog redkostnogo zverya - edinoroga dlya izgotovleniya snadob'ya, kotoroe yakoby bezotkazno pomogaet pri muzhskom bessilii. Kak utverzhdayut uchenye knigi, esli gde i mozhno otyskat' edinoroga, to tol'ko v dalekoy i nevedomoy Afrike, v zemlyah chernokozhih lyudey. Tuda i derzhit put' vmeste so vverennym emu otryadom molodoy idal'go Huan de Olid - snachala na korable, zatem na verblyudah cherez pustynyu, a potom i peshkom cherez neprohodimye dzhungli. Odnako puteshestvie okazyvaetsya kuda bolee trudnym, chem predpolagalos', i zatyagivaetsya na dolgie gody, v techenie kotoryh ispancy uvideli mnogo vsyakih chudes, perezhili zahvatyvayuschie priklyucheniya i uznali, kak zhivut samye raznye afrikanskie plemena.