In a remarkable, original work of investigative history, Symmes explains the political and social complexities of Cuba today, by illuminating the particular Cuba from which Fidel Castro emerged.
In 1952, 24-year-old Ernesto Guevara left his native Argentina to motorcycle the back roads of South America. Eight months later, Ernesto returned transformed into "Che" the revolutionary. His account of that journey, "Motorcycle Diaries", has become a classic. Nearly half a century later Patrick Symmes set off on his BMW R80/GS along the same ...
"The Boys from Dolores" is a chronicle of 230 young students and the Cuba they were born to lead. Brought together one day in 1940 for a school photo at one of the island's most elite academies, their ranks included future doctors and engineers, refugees and warriors, and two brothers - Fidel and Raul Castro - who would come to rule the fate of ...
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Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
