Short description
A companion volume to The Motorcycle Diaries continues the late revolutionary's travel diaries as he described his second odyssey through Latin America, detailing his journey to the mountains and deserts of Bolivia, the jungles of Guatemala, the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, and first meeting with Fidel Castro in Mexico. Original.
Long description
The fascinating travel diaries that make up Back on the Road are a vital complement to The Motorcycle Diaries, described by the London Times as Das Kapital meets Easy Rider. These journals chronicle Che Guevara's second trip through Latin America as his youthful idealism was developing into the political fervor that made him a revolutionary icon. More than any of his peers in the Cuban revolution, Che had a continental sense of justice, first conceptualized during his travels as a young man. He saw the mountains and deserts of Bolivia, the Inca remains at Machu Picchu and Cuzco, the forests of Guatemala; he sailed up the Pacific coast from Ecuador to Panama and met his first wife in Honduras. He witnessed the CIA overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and, in Mexico, he was introduced to an ambitious young man named Fidel Castro. Back on the Road provides a vital link between The Motorcycle Diaries and the Cuban Revolution, offering an indispensable portrait of the gestation of a revolutionary mind.