Chasing Che : A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
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Traveling by motorcycle throughout South America in 1952, Ernesto Guevara took one of the most important trips of his life, a journey he'd write about in The Motorcycle Diaries and one from which he would emerge completely transformed. As a restless medical student, he started the trip looking for adventure. Having witnessed first hand the continent's misery, he finished the journey a committed revolutionary. Some forty-five years later a far-flung, thrill-seeking journalist decided to retrace Guevara's route and to investigate Che's legacy. Like Guevara, Patrick Symmes crisscrossed South America by motorcycle (his a BMW R80 G/S, Guevara's a 1939 Norton). In his search for people who might remember Guevara, Symmes finds himself in a number of compromising situations: He runs out of gas in a desolate Argentinean desert, talks a guerrilla out of taking him hostage in Peru, crashes his motorcycle in Chile, and drinks himself blind with Che's motorcycling partner, Alberto Granado, in Cuba. Despite his troubles, he manages to talk to Latin Americans from all walks On Sale |
Chasing Che : A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend
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Traveling by motorcycle throughout South America in 1952, Ernesto Guevara took one of the most important trips of his life, a journey he'd write about in The Motorcycle Diaries and one from which he would emerge completely transformed. As a restless medical student, he started the trip looking for adventure. Having witnessed first hand the continent's misery, he finished the journey a committed revolutionary. Some forty-five years later a far-flung, thrill-seeking journalist decided to retrace Guevara's route and to investigate Che's legacy. Like Guevara, Patrick Symmes crisscrossed South America by motorcycle (his a BMW R80 G/S, Guevara's a 1939 Norton). In his search for people who might remember Guevara, Symmes finds himself in a number of compromising situations: He runs out of gas in a desolate Argentinean desert, talks a guerrilla out of taking him hostage in Peru, crashes his motorcycle in Chile, and drinks himself blind with Che's motorcycling partner, Alberto Granado, in Cuba. Despite his troubles, he manages to talk to Latin Americans from all walks On Sale |
