Motorcycle Diaries

´A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac´ Washington Post ´It´s true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller´ Guardian At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto ´Che´ Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed La Poderosa (´the powerful one´). They travelled not to visit the usual tourist attractions, but to meet ordinary people and understand Latin American life. In amidst the tales of youthful adventures - of women, wine, thrilling escapes and the power of friendship - the young Che also learns first-hand about poverty, philosophy and philosophy and forms himself into the man who would become the world´s most famous and admired revolutionary and freedom fighter. ´For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future´ Time