The Motorcycle Diaries

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These are the diaries written by Che Guevara through South 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, the other one was the thirty-year-old Alberto Granado. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are the diaries written by Che Guevara, during this riotous motorcycle tour, full of disasters & discoveries, high drama, low comedy & laddish improvisations. During his travels through Argentina, Chile, Peru & Venezuela, Che`s main concerns are where the next drink is coming from, where the next bed is to be found & who might be around to share it. He becomes a stowaway, a fireman & a football coach; he sometimes falls in love & frequently falls off the motorbike. Guevara writes surprisingly beautifully & withour any hint of formality or stiffness. Trough his accounts leaks the Ernesto who was before becaming entangled in politics
- an account of laddish humour & street life, a Latin Jack Kerouac. 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.