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The Motorcycle Diaries

Notes on a Latin American Journey

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2 of 2 copies available
2 of 2 copies available

The New York Times best-selling book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times best seller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the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

"When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner... To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been."—Aleida Guevara

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

“As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him."—January Magazine

Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA

Features of this edition include:

—A preface by Che Guevara's daughter Aleida—Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet—Photos & maps from the original journey—Che's personal reflections on his formative years: “A child of my environment."

Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 27, 1995
      Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara became Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution, Cuba's minister for industry and later a guerrilla in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed in 1967. This high-spirited travel diary of Guevara's eight-month motorcycle journey across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela as a 23-year-old medical student in 1951-52 mixes lyrical observation, youthful adventure and anti-imperialist political analysis. With a doctor friend as traveling companion, Guevara stows away on a cargo ship, explores Inca ruins, volunteers as a fireman, visits a leper colony and displays solidarity with miners and farm workers. Guevara's snide passing remarks targeting blacks, homosexuals and Jews reveal an unpleasant side of the countercultural icon. On balance, this candid journal, part self-discovery, part fieldwork, glimmers with portents of the future revolutionary.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 1, 2003
      A freewheeling account of an extended youthful road trip undertaken in the early '50s by the future poster boy of Communist insurrection.

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