{"product_id":"the-motorcycle-diaries-isbn-9781644210680","title":"The Motorcycle Diaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller\u003cbr\u003eWith a new introduction by \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcyle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arguably as much as any book ever written, the exuberance and joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending towards justice, peace and happiness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the release in 2004 of the exhilarating film of the same title, directed by Walter Salles, the book became a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and international bestseller. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes a new introduction by Walter Salles and an array of new material that was assembled for the 2004 edition coinciding with the release of the film, including 24 pages of previously unpublished photos taken by Che, notes and comments by his wife, Aleida Guevara March, and an extensive introduction by the distinguished Cuban author, Cintio Vitier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey, solitude found solidarity. 'I' turned into 'we.'\"\u003cb\u003e—Eduardo Galeano\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him.\"\u003cb\u003e—January Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Walter Salles, director of the film version of \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All this wandering around 'Our America with a Capital A' has changed me more than I thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ernesto Che Guevara, from \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction to the 2021 edition: \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, or the Rediscovery of South America by Walter Salles \u003cbr\u003eForeword to the 2003 edition by Aleida Guevara \u003cbr\u003eForeword to the 1993 edition by Aleida March\u003cbr\u003eBiography of Ernesto Che Guevara \u003cbr\u003eBrief chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara\u003cbr\u003eMap and Itinerary of \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Cintio Vitier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo we understand each other \u003cbr\u003eForewarnings \u003cbr\u003eDiscovery of the ocean \u003cbr\u003e. . . Lovesick pause \u003cbr\u003eUntil the last tie is broken \u003cbr\u003eFor the flu, bed \u003cbr\u003eSan Martín de los Andes \u003cbr\u003eCircular exploration \u003cbr\u003eDear Mama \u003cbr\u003eOn the Seven Lakes Road \u003cbr\u003eAnd now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and . . . \u003cbr\u003eObjects of curiosity \u003cbr\u003eThe Experts \u003cbr\u003eThe difficulties intensify \u003cbr\u003eLa Poderosa II’s final tour \u003cbr\u003eFirefighters, workers and other matters \u003cbr\u003eLa Gioconda’s smile \u003cbr\u003eStowaways\u003cbr\u003eThis time, disaster \u003cbr\u003eChuquicamata \u003cbr\u003eArid land for miles and miles \u003cbr\u003eThe end of Chile\u003cbr\u003eChile, a vision from afar \u003cbr\u003eTarata, the new world \u003cbr\u003eIn the dominions of Pachamama \u003cbr\u003eLake of the sun \u003cbr\u003eToward the navel of the world \u003cbr\u003eThe navel \u003cbr\u003eThe land of the Incas \u003cbr\u003eOur Lord of the Earthquakes \u003cbr\u003eHomeland for the victor \u003cbr\u003eCuzco straight\u003cbr\u003eHuambo \u003cbr\u003eEver northward \u003cbr\u003eThrough the center of Peru \u003cbr\u003eShattered hopes \u003cbr\u003eThe city of the viceroys \u003cbr\u003eDown the Ucayali \u003cbr\u003eDear Papi \u003cbr\u003eThe San Pablo leper colony \u003cbr\u003eSaint Guevara’s day \u003cbr\u003eDebut for the little Kontiki \u003cbr\u003eDear Mama \u003cbr\u003eOn the road to Caracas \u003cbr\u003eThis strange 20th century \u003cbr\u003eA note in the margin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA child of my environment (Speech to medical students, 1960)\"Most of the book is not explicitly political, but Guevara's profound radicalization is shown through his growing indignation toward American imperialism, the oppression of Indigenous people, and “profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over” that he witnesses firsthand during his travels. Guevara went on to join Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution against the Cuban government, eventually becoming the minister of industry in the new one-party Communist state. \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming-of-age story, an intimate glimpse at the beginning of one boy’s transformation into a man who some remember as a murderer and some remember as a martyr.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e— Calla Walsh, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. While studying for a medical degree in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e. During his travels he witnessed the Bolivian revolution in 1953; and, in Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz by US-backed forces. Forced to leave Guatemala, he went to Mexico City, where he linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. Che joined their expedition to Cuba, where the revolutionary war began in the Sierra Maestra mountains. At first Che was the troop doctor, and later became Rebel Army commander in July 1957.  Following the rebels’ victory on January 1, 1959, he was a key leader of the new revolutionary government and also of the political organization that in 1965 became the Communist Party of Cuba. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWALTER SALLES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eintroduction to the 2021 edition: \u003ci\u003ethe motorcycle diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, or the rediscovery of south america\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first accounts of South America reported by Amerigo Vespucci and Pedro Álvares Cabral in the early sixteenth century describe an Edenic world. The lost El Dorado, the \u003ci\u003efinis terrae\u003c\/i\u003e of the Latins, ripe for colonization. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this initial contradiction—how to submit an Edenic land to the designs of European invaders?—stems the majority of the continent’s structural imbalances: the massacre of indigenous tribes, the forced migration and enslavement of Africans obliged to work on monoculture plantations, and the haphazard drawing of borders between nations. This colonizing process, grounded in violence and slave labor, spawned societies whose references reflected essentially European beliefs and desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanuary 1952\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the young medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (twenty-three years old) mounted the pillion of an old Norton 500 behind the biochemist Alberto Granado (twenty-nine years old), with the dream of crossing the South American continent, their understanding of the territory was limited to what history books had taught them. “We knew more about the Greeks and Phoenicians than we did about the Incas,” confessed the good-humored Granado. “We didn’t actually know the precise location of Machu Picchu.” \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diarie\u003c\/i\u003es is at once a rare initiation into, and an unveiling of, a hitherto unknown reality, a unique and original physical and human geography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike the history told by the colonizers, the travel diaries of the young Ernesto begin as a picaresque account, a \u003ci\u003eclin d’oeil\u003c\/i\u003e to Cervantes, that gradually deepens as the two adventurers come into contact with the impure substance of the Latin American reality. When the social and political contradictions begin to unfurl, what started out as the diary of a road trip takes on unexpected contours: it transforms into a rite of passage that signals the gradual dawning of awareness in two Latin American youths witnessing the injustices and inequalities of a continent for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis shift becomes palpable when they reach Peru and discover the Andean and Incan heritage. It’s as if, at that moment, the course of their individual lives suddenly converges upon history with a capital \u003ci\u003eH\u003c\/i\u003e. That is when \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e veers wide of most travel accounts. The young men who reach their final destination at the continent’s northernmost tip, in Venezuela, are not the same youths who set out from their native Argentina. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew accounts offer an expression of a sensibility this open to the world and so devoid of subterfuges. \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e provides valuable tools with which to understand how the young Ernesto could transform gradually into a political figure, with a keen perception of the afflictions suffered by those around him— and of the structural iniquities that caused them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e enables an immersion into a territory as seen through its own eyes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat unravels from it is a genuine, singular South American identity. Nearly seven decades after it was written, Ernesto Guevara’s diaries continue to present a fascinating and urgent reflection of what is still seen as a last frontier. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Salles, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMay 2021 \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302831706341,"sku":"NP9781644210680","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644210680.jpg?v=1767740588","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-motorcycle-diaries-isbn-9781644210680","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}