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Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary

Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary

Granado, Alberto
Alvarez De Toledo, Lucia

Paperback

Series: Shooting Script, Book 36

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 1557046395
ISBN13: 9781557046390
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Published: Sep 2 2004
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.36
Language: English

Published for the first time in the U.S.--one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based--the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952.

In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family, decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a Norton 500cc motorbike and traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. The duo's adventures vary from the suspenseful (stowing away on a cargo ship, exploring Incan ruins) to the comedic (falling in love, drinking, fighting...) to the serious (volunteering as firemen and at a leper colony). They worked as day laborers along the way--as soccer coaches, medical assistants, and furniture movers. The poverty and exploitation of the native population started the process that was to turn Ernesto--the debonair, fun-loving student--into Che, the revolutionary who had a profound impact on the history of several nations.

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