The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey - Softcover

Ernesto Che Guevara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876175702 ISBN 13: 9781876175702

Publisher: Ocean Press, 2003

Synopsis

This is the lively and highly entertaining travel diary of a youthful Che Guevara, when as a medical student in 1951 he sets out from Argentina on an unreliable motorcycle with his buddy Alberto Granado to discover the continent of Latin America.

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Review:

"Das Kapital meets Easy Rider." (Times)

"A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac." (Washington Post)

..."Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'." (Eduardo Galeano)

"An extraordinary first-person account. ... It redoubles his image and lends a touch of humanity with enough rough edges to invite controversy." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. (Time)

"There is pathos in these pages - the pathos of Che himself, ever thoughtful, ever willing to sacrifice all, burning with guilt over his own privileges and never letting his sufferings impede him." --(New Yorker)
"This candid journal, part self-discovery, part fieldwork, glimmers with portents of the future revolutionary." (Publishers' Weekly)

"A revolutionary bestseller... It's true, Marxists just wanna have fun." (Guardian)

"What distinguishes these diaries... is that they reveal a human side to El Che which historians have successfully managed to suppress." (Financial Times)

"This book should do much to humanize the image of a man who found his apotheosis as a late '60s cultural icon. It is also, incidentally, a remarkably good travel book about South America." --(The Scotsman)

From the Back Cover:

ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA: "The enormity of our endeavor escaped us in those moments; all we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring kilometers in our flight northward."

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photographs taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara offering a highly insightful perspective on her father the man and the icon.

"A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'." -- Eduardo Galeano

"Our film is about a young man, Che, falling love with a continent and finding his place in it." Walter Salles, Director of "The Motorcycle Diaries"

About this edition

• Publisher: Ocean Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1876175702
• ISBN 13: 9781876175702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175