{"product_id":"the-motorcycle-diaries-a-journey-around-south-america","title":"The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn January 1952  two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorbike. The journey lasted six months and took them thousands of miles  all the way from Argentina to Venezuela. En route  there was disasters and discoveries  high drama  low comedy  fights  parties and a lot of serious drinking. They met an extraordinary range of people: native indians and copper miners  lepers  police  wanderers and tourists. They became stowaways  firemen and football coaches  and joined in a strike. They sometimes fell in love  and frequently fell off the motorbike. Both of them kept diaries. One of them was a tall and good-looking medical student called Ernest Guevara de la Serna. Using the standard Argentinean nickname  others would sometimes refer to the two companions as Big Che and Little Che. In Ernestos case  the nickname stuck. Within a decade the whole world would know Che Guevara. This is the story of that remarkable journey  eight years before the Cuban Revolution  in Ches own words  and illustrated with contemporary photographs. For Che  it was a formative experience  and amidst the humour and pathos of the tale  there are examples of his idealism and his solidarity with the poor and the oppressed. But it is far from being the diary of a militant  and sometimes very far from being political correct  which may be the reason that the manuscript has only been made available now  a quarter century after Ches death in the Bolivian jungle. Instead  it is a record kept by an exuberant  intelligent and observant 23-year-old  describing what might have been the adventure of a lifetimehad his lifetime not turned into a much greater adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965864800309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1859840663","price":29.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-motorcycle-diaries-a-journey-around-south-america","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}