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The motorcycle diaries notes on a Latin American journey / Ernesto Che Guevara ; preface by Aleida Guevara March ; introduction by Cintio Vitier

By: Guevara, Che, 1928-1967.
Contributor(s): Vitier, Cintio, 1921-2009 | Guevara March, Aleida, 1960-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Harper Perennial, 2004Producer: ©2003Edition: New, expanded ed.Description: 165 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007272907.Uniform titles: Notas de viaje. English Subject(s): Guevara, Che, 1928-1967 -- Travel -- South America | Granado, Alberto, 1922-2011 -- Travel -- South America | South America -- Description and travel | South America -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 918 GUE
Contents:
Preface / Aleida Guevara March -- Predace to the first edition / Aleida March -- Ernesto Che Guevara -- Brief chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara -- Map and Itinerary of the Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction / Cinto Vitier -- So we understand each other -- Forewarnings -- Discovery of the ocean -- ... Lovesick pause -- Until the last tie is broken -- For the flu, bed -- San Martín de los Andes -- Circular exploration -- Dear Mama -- On the Seven Lakes Road -- And now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and .. -- Objects of curiosity -- The experts -- The difficulties intensify -- La Podersoa II's final tour -- Firefighters, workers and other matters -- La Gioconda's smile -- Stowaways -- This time, disaster -- Chuquicamata -- Arid land for miles and miles -- The end of Chile -- Chile, a vision from afar -- Tarata, the new world -- In the dominions of Pachamama -- Lake of the sun -- Toward the navel of the world -- The navel -- The land of the Incas -- Our Lord of the earthquakes -- Homeland for the victor -- Cuzco straight -- Huambo -- Ever northward -- Through the center of Peru -- Shattered hopes -- The city of the viceroys -- Down the Ucayali -- Dear Papi -- The San Pablo leper colony -- Saint Guevara's day -- Debut for the little Kontiki -- Dear Mama -- On the road to Caracas -- This strange 20th century -- A note in the margin
Summary: This is the lively and highly entertaining travel diary of a youthful Che Guevara, when as a medical student in 1951 he sets out from Argentina on an unreliable motorcycle with his buddy Alberto Granado to discover the continent of Latin America.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 918 GUE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38888000936603
Total holds: 0

This translation originally published: 2003.

Preface / Aleida Guevara March -- Predace to the first edition / Aleida March -- Ernesto Che Guevara -- Brief chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara -- Map and Itinerary of the Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction / Cinto Vitier -- So we understand each other -- Forewarnings -- Discovery of the ocean -- ... Lovesick pause -- Until the last tie is broken -- For the flu, bed -- San Martín de los Andes -- Circular exploration -- Dear Mama -- On the Seven Lakes Road -- And now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and .. -- Objects of curiosity -- The experts -- The difficulties intensify -- La Podersoa II's final tour -- Firefighters, workers and other matters -- La Gioconda's smile -- Stowaways -- This time, disaster -- Chuquicamata -- Arid land for miles and miles -- The end of Chile -- Chile, a vision from afar -- Tarata, the new world -- In the dominions of Pachamama -- Lake of the sun -- Toward the navel of the world -- The navel -- The land of the Incas -- Our Lord of the earthquakes -- Homeland for the victor -- Cuzco straight -- Huambo -- Ever northward -- Through the center of Peru -- Shattered hopes -- The city of the viceroys -- Down the Ucayali -- Dear Papi -- The San Pablo leper colony -- Saint Guevara's day -- Debut for the little Kontiki -- Dear Mama -- On the road to Caracas -- This strange 20th century -- A note in the margin

This is the lively and highly entertaining travel diary of a youthful Che Guevara, when as a medical student in 1951 he sets out from Argentina on an unreliable motorcycle with his buddy Alberto Granado to discover the continent of Latin America.