Traveling with Che Guevara

Author: Alberto Granado
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458758478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Published for the first time in the U.S. - one of the two diaries on which the upcoming movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based - the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberton Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952. 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 Agentina on a Norton 500cc motorbike traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. The duo's adventures vary from the suspenseful (stowing away on a cargo ship, exploring Incan ruins) to the comedic (falling in love, drinking, fighting...) to the serious (volunteering as firemen and at a leper colony). They worked as day laborers along the way - as soccer coaches, medical assistants, and furniture movers. The poverty and exploitation of the native population started the process that was to turn Ernesto - the debonair, fun-loving student - into Che, the revolutionary who had a profound impact on the history of several nations. Originally published in Spanish in Cuba in 1978, the first English translation was published by Random House UK in 2003. The movie, based on Granado's and Che's diaries, directed by Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun), was produced by Robert Redford and others. Shown at the Sundance Film Festival, it generated great reviews and a frenzied auction for distribution rights, which was won by Focus Features. Granado, now 82, was a consultant to Salles during the production.

Travelling with Che Guevara

Author: Alberto Granado
Publisher: Random House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Published for the first time in English, an account of Che Guevara’s 1952 motorcycle tour of South America, written 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. Along the way, they worked as casual labourers, football coaches, medical assistants, and haulage hands. What the two young men encountered on their journey – the poverty and exploitation of the native population – changed them forever. This crucial turning point was to turn Ernesto – the debonair, fun-loving student – into Che, the man who fought for the liberation of Cuba. To this day, Che Guevara remains Latin America’s foremost hero and one of the world’s great revolutionaries. In this 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.

Che Guevara

Author: Trisha Ziff
Publisher: Abrams Image
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Ziff offers a revealing look at the incredibly varied ways a 1960s photo and Che Guevara have been appropriated. The image has become an ideal of abstraction, and this text vividly demonstrates the diverse ways in which it has been used.

Motorcycle Diaries

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417664030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. This high-spirited travel diary of Guevara's eight-month motorcycle journey across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela as a 23-year-old medical student in 1951-52 mixes lyrical observation, youthful adventure and anti-imperialist political analysis.

The Motorcycle Diaries

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 164421069X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A New York Times bestseller With a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che. The Motorcycle Diaries 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. After the release in 2004 of the exhilarating film of the same title, directed by Walter Salles, the book became a New York Times and international bestseller. This 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. "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.'"—Eduardo Galeano "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."—January Magazine "Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it." —Walter Salles, director of the film version of The Motorcycle Diaries "All this wandering around 'Our America with a Capital A' has changed me more than I thought." —Ernesto Che Guevara, from The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries

Author: Ernesto Guevara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857023992
Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
This updated and revised new edition of Six Key Approaches to Counselling and Therapy provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of six of the most popular contemporary therapeutic approaches from the three main schools of therapy practice: - cognitive therapy and solution-focused therapy from the cognitive-behavioural school - person-centred and Gestalt therapy from the humanistic school - Freud's psychoanalysis and Jung's analytical therapy from the psychodynamic school. Following a clearly-defined structure, each chapter describes the origin of the therapeutic approach, a biography of its originator, its theory and practice, discusses case material and further developments, and suggests further reading. Richard Nelson-Jones goes on to review and evaluate all the approaches in his concluding chapter. This excellent textbook is a vital resource for students on introductory courses and those who are starting out on professional training.

Back on the Road

Author: Che Guevara
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1860469728
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
His Principal Interest Was In Archaeology And Politics, And His First Stop Was Bolivia, Which Had Recently Experienced A Far-Reaching Revolution, And Where He Had The Opportunity To Study The Inca Remains At Tiahuanaco And Elsewhere. He Moved On To Peru, Visiting Cuzco, Macchu Picchu And Lima, And Along The Andes To Guayaquil In Ecuador Before Sailing Up The Coast To Panama, Costa Rica And Guatemala, Where He Was Caught Up In The Cia Overthrow Of The Arbenz Government, And Later Mexico, Where He Was To Meet Fidel Castro For The First Time.Throughout His Travels, The Young Guevara Kept A Spasmodic Diary In Which He Recorded His Impressions Of His Two-Year Journey. It Was An Expedition, Which Thousands Of Backpackers Accomplish Today, And Thousands More Dream About.

Viva Che!

Author: Andrew Sinclair
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750956488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Useful for those interested in Che Guevara and the legacy he left behind, this book includes material which reveals how Ches death and example led to the revolutions of 1968, particularly in France, the UK and the USA. It also includes Fidel Castros speech on Ches death, along with Inti Peredos insistence that the struggle would continue.

The Awakening of Latin America

Author: Che Guevara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980429282
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The name Che Guevara is synonymous with Latin America - he passionately dedicated his life and, ultimately, his death to the rights of its people as a guerrilla fighter. But he is also revered as a brilliant writer, whose ideology was captured in letters, speeches and journals. This anthology includes the best of Che's writing from examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters and poems, revealing his transformation from an impressionable medical student to a political icon.

I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1644210967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form. Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full. As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."