Short description
Published for the first time in English, this is an account of Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle tour of South America by his close friend and travelling companion, Alberto Granado.
Review
Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries gives an account of the six-month-long journey through South America which crystallised his political commitment. He was accompanied on that journey by a young doctor, Alberto Granado, and this book is Granado's own version of their eye-opening trip through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. Granado was as changed by what they saw of Latin American poverty and injustice as was Che, though it led him in a less glamorous and high-profile direction, confirming his commitment to fight suffering through medical rather than political means. First published in Spanish in 1978, it's more than just a further memoir for Che completists. Interest in the book will no doubt be boosted by Robert Redford's movie based on the Motorcycle Diaries, also due for release in December.