Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara

Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara Book Description

Translated by Alexandra Keeble
The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic.

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara.

Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che's diaries full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy and laddish improvisations. During his travels through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, Che's main concerns are where the next drink is coming from, where the next bed is to be found and who might be around to share it. Che becomes a stowaway, a fireman and a football coach; he sometimes falls in love and frequently falls off the motorbike.

Within a decade the whole world would know his name. His trip might have been an adventure of a lifetime had his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure..

Its true; Marxists just wanna have fun. - Guardian

Politically-correct revolutionary hero? Perhaps a few years later, but in this account Che Guevara comes over as one of the lads. - Bike News

What distinguishes these diaries is that they reveal a human side to El Che which historians have successfully managed to suppressone senses El Che's belief that determination and conviction can be enough to change one's self and others a joy to read from start to finish. - Financial Times

Political incorrectness galorethis book should do much to humanise the image of a man who found his apotheosis as a late Sixties cultural icon. It is also, incidentally, a remarkably good travel book about South America. - Scotsman

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