Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary (Shooting Script)
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ISBN: 1557046395 / Publisher: Newmarket Press, September 2004
For seven months in 1952, two young men put what promised to be brilliant careers on hold, climbed aboard a 50cc Norton, and toured large portions of South America. They worked at odd jobs to feed themselves, and for the first time met and were deeply moved by the ordinary people of their own continent. One went on to found a medical school. The other became Che Guevara. This is the first US edition of Granado's trip diary, a companion to Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries; the newly-released film is based on both diaries. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Published for the first time in the U.S.—one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based—the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto 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 Argentina on a Norton 500cc motorbike and 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. 10 b/w photos.
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