The Motorcycle Diaries (Film Tie-in Edition): Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto Che Guevara, Cintio Vitier, Aleida Guevara

Overview

New film tie-in edition for Redford-Salles's "Motorcycle Diaries" starring Gael García Bernal as young Che Guevara

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781920888107
Publisher:	Ocean Press
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	Che Guevara Publishing Project Series
Edition description:	Media tie-in
Pages:	175
Sales rank:	268,823
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Che Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

In 1952, on the back of a British motorcycle, medical student Ernesto "Che" Guevara took off on a hastily improvised tour of South America. Before a third of his trip was over, Guevara's sputtering 1939 Norton had to be abandoned, but his scribbled, mud-splattered journal became the basis of the posthumously published Motorcycle Diaries, which in turn was the basis of the Walter Salles film of the same name. This movie tie-in edition offers a rare glimpse into the life of a young man about to leap into history.