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Chasing Che : a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend / Patrick Symmes.

By:

Symmes, Patrick, 1964- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Vintage Books, 2000.Edition: first editionDescription: xviii, 302 pages : map ; 21 cmISBN:

0375702652

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

918.04/39 21

LOC classification:

F 2225 .S96 2000

Contents:

Introduction -- Chapter one: The silver river -- Chapter two: Fellow Travelers -- Chapter three: Big in Japan -- Chapter four: Mytopia -- Chapter five: Che and the art of motorcycle maintenance -- Chapter six: The miracle -- Chapter seven: Jubilation -- Chapter eight: The red blaze -- Chapter nine: The road to Rome -- Chapter ten: Holy week -- Chapter eleven: The navel of the world -- Chapter twelve: The wit and wisdom of Che Guevara -- Chapter thirteen: Ten thousand evolutions --- Epilogue: Final victory --

Summary: "In 1952, 24-year-old Ernesto Guevara and a friend left their native Argentina to motorcycle the back roads of South America. Eight months later, Ernesto returned transformed. The freewheeling youth had evolved into the man known as Che, and became the revolutionary who would inspire followers from Cuba to the Congo-an icon to this day. His account of his road trip, "The Motorcycle Diaries," has become a classic. Nearly half a century later, armed with little more than a notebook, a copy of Che's book, and a few extra spark plugs, Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places encountered by Che. And a new adventure of man and motorcycle begins: a wanderer's quest for food, shelter, and wisdom. Symmes runs out of gas in an Argentine desert, wipes out in the Andes, and drinks himself blind with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado, in Cuba. Here, too, is the portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth to not only freedom fighters, but tyrant whose methods include torture and mass murder. Masterfully detailed and as insightful as it is entertaining, "Chasing Che" transfixes us with the glory of the open road, where man and machine traverse the unknown in search of the spirit's keenest desires. " -From the back cover.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	The Karen Lee Wald Collection	F 2225 .S96 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML22040015

Owner underlined and made notes in the margin (pages 14-17)

A map of the lower half of South America. (

"In 1952, 24-year-old Ernesto Guevara and a friend left their native Argentina to motorcycle the back roads of South America. Eight months later, Ernesto returned transformed. The freewheeling youth had evolved into the man known as Che, and became the revolutionary who would inspire followers from Cuba to the Congo-an icon to this day. His account of his road trip, "The Motorcycle Diaries," has become a classic. Nearly half a century later, armed with little more than a notebook, a copy of Che's book, and a few extra spark plugs, Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places encountered by Che. And a new adventure of man and motorcycle begins: a wanderer's quest for food, shelter, and wisdom. Symmes runs out of gas in an Argentine desert, wipes out in the Andes, and drinks himself blind with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado, in Cuba. Here, too, is the portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth to not only freedom fighters, but tyrant whose methods include torture and mass murder. Masterfully detailed and as insightful as it is entertaining, "Chasing Che" transfixes us with the glory of the open road, where man and machine traverse the unknown in search of the spirit's keenest desires. " -From the back cover.

Gift of Karen Wald.

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