The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

The Motorcycle Diaries

A Journey Around South America
Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
1996
4th Estate (Verlag)
978-1-85702-399-2 (ISBN)
8,70 inkl. MwSt
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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.

Ernesto Che Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. After fighting alongside Fidel Castro in the three-year guerilla 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, the translator, has a doctorate in Cuban history and lived and worked in Argentina for six years.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.7.2002
Übersetzer Ann Wright
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 150 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Südamerika
ISBN-10 1-85702-399-4 / 1857023994
ISBN-13 978-1-85702-399-2 / 9781857023992
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