The Motorcycle Diaries

• Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
• Ocean Books; 2004
• Paperback; 174 pages
• 978-1-920888-10-7

A New York Times bestseller, this is the book of the popular movie “The Motorcycle Diaries,” directed by Walter Salles and starring Gael García Bernal as the young Che Guevara—or Ernesto, as he was at the time.

These lively and highly entertaining travel diaries are illustrated with photos from the original journey and mark the starting point of the young Argentine medical student’s transformation into one of the 20th century’s most enduring revolutionary icons.

Che’s daughter Aleida writes in her preface to this book:

“When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner… There were moments when I literally took over [Alberto] Granado’s place on the motorbike and clung to my dad’s back, journeying with him over the mountains and around the lakes… To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been…”

Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana.