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The motorcycle diaries : notes on a Latin American journey

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The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic.In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton.

One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara.Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che's diaries -- full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy and laddish improvisations.

During his travels through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela, Che's main concerns are where the next drink is coming from, where the next bed is to be found and who might be around to share it.

Che becomes a stowaway, a fireman and a football coach; he sometimes falls in love and frequently falls off the motorbike.Within a decade the whole world would know his name.

His trip might have been an adventure of a lifetime -- had his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure.

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HarperPerennial
0007172338 / 9780007172337
Paperback / softback
19/07/2004
United Kingdom
English
165 p., [24] p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Film tie-in. This translation originally published: London: Verso, 1995.
/ Lead title The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic. / Over 100,000 paperback copies sold to date / Film released in the UK in July 2004. Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Et tu Mama Tambien -- And Your Mother Too) stars ar Che / Repackaged and refreshed for the film audience
/ Lead title The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic. / Over 100,000 paperback copies sold to date / Film released in the UK in July 2004. Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Et tu Mama Tambien -- And Your Mother Too) stars ar Che / Repackaged and refreshed for the film audience 1KL Latin America, 3JJ 20th century, BG Biography: general, WTL Travel writing