About this title: Featuring original photographs from Che's journey across South America, a new translation, and a moving Preface by the author's daughter, this work marks the starting point of Guevara's transformation into one of the 20th century's most enduring icons.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ocean Pr
Date Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN-13:9781920888114ISBN:192088811X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781920888114ISBN:192088811X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ocean Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781920888114ISBN:192088811X
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 168 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Featuring original photographs from Che's journey across South America, a new translation, and a moving Preface by the author's daughter, this work marks the starting point of Guevara's transformation into one of the 20th century's most enduring icons. read more
"The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes On a Latin American Journey Ernesto "Che" Guevara Reviewed by: Alena Siu
This book is a diary by Ernesto Guevara, an important general of the Cuban revolutionary war. This book was written along the travels that led to his desire to pursue his future in bring change in Cuba. The story starts out as Ernesto and his soon-to-be best friend, Alberto. They decide in the beginning that what they want to do is travel through South America. Ernesto is one year away from finishing his education to be a doctor and Alberto is already pretty much set up as a doctor, but they feel the mutual need to go off on this journey. They know exactly what they're getting into and know that they'll be having to deal with a lot of hardships but that just gets them more determined. They have no goal, the only thing they are meaning to accomplish is to gain more perspective before they settle down and take their lives seriously. As they go around they see all the suffering and poverty that is going on and they even get to experience it themselves. Their travels lasted for about two years and it's only because of their persistent attitudes that it was able to. They both enjoyed the feeling of having no ties to anything or anyone but each other and they kept at it even though they had to put up with a lot for a consequence. They didn't stay in one place for long and along the way they met a lot of new friends, and used the hospitality of some old friends. Every chapter is from a new place and with new people so you really get a picture of how friendly and sociable these two are. At the end of the book Ernesto and Alberto go off on their separate ways. Alberto has a job set up for when he returns, but Ernesto pursues a way to stop the suffering he sees around him. Ernesto wrote the book first as a diary and later went back and edited it. Years later his daughter edited it again and turned it into a book. I bet there were a lot of things that could've been added to the book but were kept out to keep down the length. Because it reads as a diary it seems like it would be more special for Ernesto to have re-read it himself, because it would've meant more to him than it would to any other, not having the extra insight of knowing what else had been going on during any particular entry. When an outsider reads even a paragraph of somebody else's diary they will only know what the paragraph says, but when the writer reads over the paragraph they have so much more information about what they had been thinking and what else had been going on in the paragraph that they just hadn't put in. That can't be helped with this book, but because it seems so impersonal it seems more like it should've been written in third person. Ernesto seems to just put in anything going on that a third person would be limited to knowing, but sometimes he adds his own thoughts or feelings and that gives it back the personal touch."
"What surprises me most about this book is how much more real and good and personal Che Guevara seems to me after reading it. I have seen the movie and expected the Diaries to be much more political, but there is actually only a single passage in the Diaries about a unified Latin America. He is moved by the conditions of the people he encounters and specifically notes aspects of healthcare that desperately need improvement, in addition to economic factors like how the mining industry impacts communities, but his notes seem to be much more personal than political. It is his personal voice that really impressed me and makes me want to know more about Che Guevara as a leader."
"The journal covers the travels of Ernesto (later to be known as 'Che') and his friend Alberto Granado. In December 1951 the start on their journey from Cordoba, Argentina, to North America on La Poderosa. They travel through Argentina to Chile (where they sadly take leave of La Poderosa), to Peru. Colombia and Venezuela have small parts, and though they do get back to Argentina, the journal ends in Caracas.
Firstly, I had to remind myself many times that this was the journal of a 23 year old. Very insightful and mature, not to mention academic. I forget too often that they were doctors/studying, and that my previous preconceived ideas clouded my appreciation that a revolutionary can be learned...now that I think of it, probably most revolutionaries are quite learned.
My aunt asked me, "Was he a revolutionary when he wrote his diaries, or because of this marvelous trip he became a revolutionary?". After reading the notes, I would say that his journey was part of who he was to become.
I am humbled by his story, and hope to remember there is so much history behind who each of us become...may I not hold preconceptions in the future."
"Contrary to popular belief (and the movie) this isn't a particularly political book - but rather a humorous travelogue about a couple of middle-class medical students trying to travel as cheaply as possible, morality be damned, with the odd political point thrown in. Inotherwords not too different from the travels many people I knew in college took, many through lands savaged by the misguided economic and social policies he came to advocate. I'm sure many of them no doubt picked up Che shirts en route. That's an irony that young Ernesto the traveler might have appreciated but that Che the ideologue and global revolutionary wouldn't have."
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