Che Guevara's riotous diaries charting his motorcycle odyssey from Argentina through Chile and Peru ending finally in Venezuela. 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 ...
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Che Guevara's riotous diaries charting his motorcycle odyssey from Argentina through Chile and Peru ending finally in Venezuela. 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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When I first saw this book on a shelf in the store I was pretty excited about it. Che Guvara has of-course become the universal symbol of resistance and rebellion, and I thought this would be a good way to look at the lighter side of the man, and also possibility get an insight on the events and thoughts that made him who he was.
Overall, I was disappointed with the book. It is a collection of incidents and anecdotes on Che?s part-motorcycle part-hitch-hiking journey through South America. After finishing college, he heads out with a friend on a motorbike with the intent to travel from Argentina all the way to the US.
Though the book is funny and engaging at times, it falls short of being inspirational. It is at best a collection of incidents and events in his journey. There is no insight on how the journey shaped and changed the great person that Che was to become, or into his thoughts and opinions. It is at best good for a light read on the plane.