Chasing Che - Patrick Symmes

Chasing Che

A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2001
Robinson Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84119-291-8 (ISBN)
9,95 inkl. MwSt
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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. Nearly half a century later, the author set off along the same route. This book gives an insight into the moulding of the Latin American hero.
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 route in search of the people and places encountered by Che. Symmes' own adventures - he runs out of petrol in an Argentine desert, breaks down in the Andes, and drinks himself blind in Cuba with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado - counterpoint those of the great revolutionary. The book gives an insight into the moulding of the great Latin American hero and paints a portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth not only to freedom fighters but also tyrants. But above all it is the story of a great journey on the open road, where man and machine traverse the unknown in search of the spirit's keenest desires.

Patrick Symmes is a journalist who writes about Latin America, politics, and Third World travel for a number of magazines, including Harper's, Outside, Conde Nast Traveler. He lives in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.3.2001
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Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 197 mm
Gewicht 270 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Südamerika
ISBN-10 1-84119-291-0 / 1841192910
ISBN-13 978-1-84119-291-8 / 9781841192918
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