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Motorcycle Diaries

Che Guevara, Aleida Guevara and others

  • 173 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1993
  • 39 editions
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1 About this book

The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish: Diarios de motocicleta) is a posthumously published memoir of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It traces his early travels as a 23-year-old medical student with his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton 500cc dubbed La Poderosa ("The Mighty One"), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books. During the formative odyssey, Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Inca civilization. By journey's end, they had travelled for a "symbolic nine months" by motorcycle, steamship, raft, horse, bus, and hitchhiking, covering more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) across places such as the Andes, the Atacama Desert, and the Amazon River Basin.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Autobiography and memoir
  • Revolutionaries
  • Adventure
  • Voyages and travels
  • Biography
  • Social history
  • Social science
  • America, history

2 About Che Guevara

1928–1967

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna (14 May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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