Back on the Road (Otra Vez): A Journey Through Latin America - Softcover

Guevara, Ernesto Che

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802139426 ISBN 13: 9780802139429

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002

Synopsis

The fascinating travel diaries that make up Back on the Road are a vital complement to The Motorcycle Diaries, described by the London Times as "Das Kapital meets Easy Rider." These journals chronicle Che Guevara's second trip through Latin America as his youthful idealism was developing into the political fervor that made him a revolutionary icon. More than any of his peers in the Cuban revolution, Che had a continental sense of justice, first conceptualized during his travels as a young man. He saw the mountains and deserts of Bolivia, the Inca remains at Machu Picchu and Cuzco, the forests of Guatemala; he sailed up the Pacific coast from Ecuador to Panama and met his first wife in Honduras. He witnessed the CIA overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and, in Mexico, he was introduced to an ambitious young man named Fidel Castro. Back on the Road provides a vital link between The Motorcycle Diaries and the Cuban Revolution, offering an indispensable portrait of the gestation of a revolutionary mind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802139426
• ISBN 13: 9780802139429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160