Motorcycle Diaries, The - Ernesto Che Guevara

Che Guevara: Marxist icon, revolutionary theorist, doctor, teacher, diplomat, political leader, guerrilla fighter, "the most complete human being of our age", asthmatic motorcyclist. 'Motorcycle Diaries' begins in November 1951. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a 23-year-old medical student from an upper middle class family in Buenos Aries, is fantasizing about faraway places, tropical seas and Asia with his friend, Alberto Granado. On a whim, they decide to travel to North America on 'La Poderosa' (the Powerful One), a 500cc Norton motorcycle. What follows is an almost entirely improvised six-month curve through five "unstable and ...

Author: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara Publisher: HarperPerennial Date of Publish: 1996 Genre: Fiction/ travel diaries No of Pages: 176 RRP: £7.99 Amazon Price: £5.99 >>>What its all about<<< In 1952 two friends, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado decided to journey across South America on the back of Alberto’s less than reliable Norton motorcycle, La Ponderosa. These are the diaries of the trip and the accompanying thrills, spills, high points and low points that ultimately lead them to a Peruvian Leper Colony where they volunteered for some weeks. The story is told through the eyes of an as yet unknown ...

Before Che Guevara moved to Cuba to begin the revolution with Fidel Castro and before politics had changed the course of his life, Guevara decided to take time out from studying to be a doctor to go on a tour of South America with his friend Alberto Granado. This book the motorcycle diaries is pretty much what it says it is. A detailed description of his adventures. He was just 23 and he travels from his home in Buenos Aires, through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Venezula, Miami, Brazil, Uraguay and then finally back to Argentina to finish studying.All this distance on a 500cc Norton, nicknamed 'La Pederosa' (The powerful one). There are no signs of ...