- Gebundene Ausgabe: 156 Seiten
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers (23. Mai 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1859849717
- ISBN-13: 978-1859849712
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18,8 x 14,5 x 2 cm
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Film tie-in edition of the revolutionary's account of his motorcycle journey through South America, written eight years before the Cuban revolution. "It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun" }Guardian{.
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In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles, all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route, there was disasters and discoveries, high drama, low comedy, fights, parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners, lepers, police, wanderers and tourists. They became stowaways, firemen and football coaches, and joined in a strike. They sometimes fell in love, and frequently fell off the motorbike. Both of them kept diaries. One of them was a tall and good-looking medical student called Ernest Guevara de la Serna. Using the standard Argentinean nickname, others would sometimes refer to the two companions as Big Che and Little Che. In Ernesto's case, the nickname stuck. Within a decade the whole world would know Che Guevara. This is the story of that remarkable journey, eight years before the Cuban Revolution, in Che's own words, and illustrated with contemporary photographs.
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There's an honesty in this book that's not seen much lately. And that alone makes this book great. There's a scene where Che and his buddy feel like they are really roughing it, sleeping in a run down shed in the middle of nowhere when they are awoken by scary scratching sounds. They think its a jaguar and they shoot it. Instead they have killed the landowners little puppy. How many travel writers these days would even admit to that?
Che's travels are rarely specatacular, and that's refreshing. Still, as do most of my favorite travel authors, his goals are never to see waterfalls or ruins; he is on an adventure of people. For him this involves booze, dancing and women but that's okay...there's something real here and that's what's really enchanting. Although, it is painfully obvious that he becomes a leper expert for the most part because they offer him free food and lodging on his travels (a sort of leper run holiday inn), his dealings and soccer games with them are charming as all hell.
Che is shady and admits to it. I love it. Even without his later fame, I would have loved the book. But getting a peak at Che Guevara as a raucous young man brings this book up to five stars. Check it out.
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It is a little deceptive to refer to this book as "The Motorcycle Diaries" because the motorcycle ( a 500cc Norton) is featured in less that half of the book. However it is an excellent record of Guevara's travels around South America with his friend and colleague Dr. Alberto. If you don't share Guevara's political viewpoint you'll still find the book enjoyable. It is also well written, at times lyrical . It made me wish I read Spanish better because I imagine it is even more descriptive in the original language.Finally, from a historical perspective you can see the beginnings of Che's evolution into flaming Communism. This paleo-conservative gives the book 4 stars and a high recommendation, even if you've never ridden a motorcycle.
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While the topic of Che Guevera's South American travels is worthwhile, the title is a bit misleading. Guevera and his traveling companion abandon their motorcycle, "La Ponderosa II" before they're a quarter way through their trip. Thus, from the perspective of an adventure motorcycle journey log, it disappoints. However, from the perspective of learning more about the development of Che's socialist philosophy, it's most valuable. Guevera well documents some of the incidents during this trip that help fuel his allegiance with the prolitariat. Written in a narrative form, this is not a day-by-day, hour-by-hour dry account of Che's journey. Rather, it appears that upon returning to Argentina, he reviewed his diary notes and distilled them into narrative prose. All in all, it was a worthwhile, if quick, read.
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Eine interessante Geschichte vor einer interessanten Geschichte
Für jeden, der sich in seiner Jugend oder heute noch für Che Guevara, die Revolution und alles was so dazugehört(e), interessiert, ist dieses Buch ein Muss. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2006 von boober
Excellent coverage of an extrodinery adventure.
I think this book gives and excellent account of the events during ches adventures through parts of South America. It is one of his best writings. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. September 1999 veröffentlicht
This book gets into the mind and personality of young Che.
The Motorcycle Diaries makes us see the early Ernresto Guevara. His ambition to seek new adventures while trying to survive under poverty makes this book fascinating to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Not a motorcycle book
I think the title of this book was a calculated effort to sell this book to people like me--people who care more about motorcycles than revolutionaries. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Not a motorcycling travelog
Folks who buy this book thinking that they are about to settle down to read a motorcycling travelog will be disappointed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. März 1999 veröffentlicht
What a gripper, One of the lads!
I am not a great reader of books, but this one is an absolute scream. I read this book while I was flying from London to New York and I hardly noticed the flight go, a real... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. Februar 1999 von peter@technical87.freeserve.co.uk
Guevara, Kerouac and Rollins - - Road Revolutionaries
Everyone takes a journey. Only a few can ever write about it.
Che Guevera - The Revolutionary
Jack Kerouac - The Beat
Henry Rollins - The End of Silence
Am 26. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
A humourous moving adventure, embellished with time
I found this book entertaining and interesting yet I could not help wondering how much of it WAS written by the 22 year old Ernesto and how much of it was written by the older... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
An Insight on a Future Revolutionary.
This is a great book that gives an illuminating insight into the events that molded a future revolutionary leader... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. November 1998 veröffentlicht
che's diary blazed a trail across my own adventuresome heart
although this book was edited by che some time after returning from south america, he acknowledges this at the beginning of the book by saying, "the person who wrote these... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. September 1998 von XrenegadaX@aol.com
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