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Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’

 
9781857023992: The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
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ISBN 10 : 1857023994 ISBN 13 : 9781857023992
Editeur : 4th Estate, 1996

Synopsis

Che Guevara’s riotous riotous diaries charting his motorcycle odyssey from Argentina through Chile and Peru ending finally in Venezuela.

There are the diaries written by Che Guevara during his riotous motorcycle odyssey from Argentina through Chile and Peru ending finally in Venezuela. Most of the journey was undertaken on ‘La Poderosa’, the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. Che Guevara’s route is no political campaign: it is six months of high drama and low comedy in which the main concerns of Che and his travelling partner are where the next drink is coming from, where the next bed is to be found and who might be around to share it. This is a diary full of laddish improvisations: needing to earn money in Chile where there is an outburst of fires Guevara enlists as a fireman only to oversleep as a house is reduced to ashes; he shoots the dog of one of his hosts fearing that it is a puma on the loose; when grievously affected with stomach cramps he relieves himself out of his bedroom window somewhat to the detriment of the trays of peaches racked below. This lusty travelogue is free of pomp and full of life. Had Guevara’s life not become so entwined in revolutionary adventure this would certainly have been the journey of a lifetime.

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À propos des auteurs

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. After fighting alongside Fidel Castro in the three-year guerrilla war in Cuba, he became Minister for Industry following the victory of the Cuban Revolution. In 1966 he established a guerilla base in Bolivia. He was captured and killed in 1967.



Ann Wright has a doctorate in Cuban history and lived and worked in Argentina for six years.

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Éditeur
4th Estate
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1857023994
ISBN 13 
9781857023992
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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Personne responsable
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