The Motorcycle Diaries

History of Central America

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara

The film tie-in edition of the established modern classic.In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on ‘La Poderosa’, the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara.Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che’s diaries — full of disasters and discoveries, high drama, low co….Read More

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