Motorcycle Diaries

by Guevara, Ernesto Che

• ISBN13: 9781920888107
• ISBN10: 1920888101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: OCEAN PRESS

Summary

Special movie tie-in edition of Che Guevara's youthful travel diaries to coincide with the Fall release of Redford & Salles's film of the book. Says director Walter Salles: "If the film reaches a younger audience, I hope it will inspire people to read The Motorcycle Diaries, to have the impression that change can occur." "As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him."-January Magazine "The Motorcycle Diaries could easily go on to become the first Spanish language nominee for Best Picture."-Roger Friedman, Fox News

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Preface to the first edition	p. 4
Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara	p. 5
Brief chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara	p. 7
Map and Itinerary of The Motorcycle Diaries	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
So we understand each other	p. 31
Forewarnings	p. 32
Discovery of the ocean	p. 34
...Lovesick pause	p. 35
Until the last tie is broken	p. 38
For the flu, bed	p. 40
San Martin de los Andes	p. 44
Circular exploration	p. 47
Dear Mama	p. 50
On the Seven Lakes Road	p. 51
And now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and...	p. 53
Objects of curiosity	p. 55
The Experts	p. 57
The difficulties intensify	p. 60
La Poderosa II's final tour	p. 62
Firefighters, workers and other matters	p. 64
La Gioconda's smile	p. 67
Stowaways	p. 73
This time, disaster	p. 76
Chuquicamata	p. 79
Arid land for miles and miles	p. 82
The end of Chile	p. 84
Chile, a vision from afar	p. 86
Tarata, the new world	p. 89
In the dominions of Pachamama	p. 94
Lake of the sun	p. 98
Toward the navel of the world	p. 100
The navel	p. 103
The land of the Incas	p. 105
Our Lord of the Earthquakes	p. 111
Homeland for the victor	p. 113
Cuzco straight	p. 115
Huambo	p. 118
Ever northward	p. 123
Through the center of Peru	p. 126
Shattered hopes	p. 129
The city of the viceroys	p. 133
Down the Ucayali	p. 140
Dear Papi	p. 145
The San Pablo leper colony	p. 146
Saint Guevara's day	p. 148
Debut for the little Kontiki	p. 152
Dear Mama	p. 153
On the road to Caracas	p. 158
This strange 20th century	p. 160
A note in the margin	p. 163
A child of my environment (Speech to medical students, 1960)	p. 167
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