Travelling With Che Guevara

The Making of a Revolutionary

Alberto Granado, Lucia Alvarez de Toledo

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Spanish

Pimlico
02 February 2004

Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; Travel writing

Published for the first time in English, an account of Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle tour of South America by his close friend and travelling companion.

In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike and travelled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. They worked as casual labourers along the way, as football coaches, medical assistants, and haulage hands. The poverty and exploitation of the native population changed them for ever. Each man later wrote an account of the journey.

Alberto Granado realised later in his life that what they saw and encountered on their journey represented a crucial turning point. It strengthened Alberto's determination to forge his career as a scientist. And it started the process that was to turn Ernesto - the debonair, fun-loving student - into Che, the man who fought for the liberation of Cuba and became the heroic and glamorous warrior fighting for freedom and social justice, who remains to this day in people's minds Latin America's foremost hero and one of the world's great revolutionaries. A companion to Che's Motorcycle Diaries, Alberto Granado's book is a moving and at times hilarious account of how two carefree young men found their true purpose in life.

By: Alberto Granado
Translated by: Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
Imprint: Pimlico
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781844134267
ISBN 10: 1844134261
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 February 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary

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.