Name: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries (2nd Hand Paperback)
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SKU: B000137
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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries (2nd Hand Paperback)

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Synopsis

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

Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries of Che Guevara, full of disasters and discoveries, high drama and laddish improvisations.

Touring through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, his greatest 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.

Within a decade Che Guevara would be a household name. His trip might have been the adventure of a lifetime - had his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure.

More recently made into an Oscar-winning film starring Gael Garcia Bernal, ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ is an extraordinary account of a hero in the making.

Details

Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
Condition : Very Good
Category : Non-Fiction - Autobiography & Biography
Published : 2004 (Harper Collins)
ISBN : 9780007172337
SKU : B000137
PPC : LL260gm
RRP : £7.99
Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' - Washington Post.

'For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future' - Time.

'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun . . . a revolutionary bestseller' - The Guardian.

The Author

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.