Back on the Road by Che Guevara

Back on the Road by Che Guevara

In July 1953, recently graduated as a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires, Che Guevara decided to set off once again to explore the Latin American continent. His principal interests were in archaeology and politics, and his first stops were Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revolution, Peru, where he visited Cuzco, the Inca remains at Macchu Picchu, and Lima and Guayaquil in Ecuador. Subsequently, he sailed up the Pacific coast to Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala, where he witnessed the CIA overthrow of the Arbenz government, and later Mexico, where he was to meet Fidel Castro for the first time. Throughout his travels Guevara kept a spasmodic diary in which he recorded his impressions of his two year journey. It was an expedition which thousands of young backpackers accomplish today and thousands more dream of achieving.

A delightful and important sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries Richard Gott; This autobiographical account of Che Guevara's second trip through Latin America in the early 1950s reveals the political activist emerging from the chrysalis of a simple tourist visiting famous archaeological sitesAs the future guerrilla leader follows the classical travellers' route along the spine of the Andes, and is pitched into the maelstrom of the Guatemalan revolution and its overthrow by the CIA, the reader is privileged to observe at first hand the birth of a revolutionary. Richard Gott

Ernesto Che Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. In 1959 he helped Fidel Castro overthrow the Cuban dicator Fulgencio Batista and later became a key figure in the revolutionary movements of the 1960s. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967.

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ISBN 13	9781860468483
ISBN 10	1860468489
Titel	Back on the Road
Autor	Che Guevara
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-06-21
Seitenanzahl	208
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