The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Che Guevara
Che Guevara is such an icon that it’s interesting reading him in the first person, describing his road trip across Latin America with a friend as a student in the early 1950s. He’s quite funny. He wrote quite a few other, more serious books—about the Cuban Revolution and also fighting in Bolivia, where he was caught and executed. They’re all written in note form, so quite readable although a bit of extra reading may be needed for context.
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“It’s a great memoir, and strangely for someone who is probably more famous as a revolutionary than Neruda is, his Motorcycle Diaries are actually really interesting for their descriptiveness of a very quotidian type of life. He’s a very good travel writer, and he describes what he sees. Certainly he describes the inequalities that he sees, but it’s also just a great travel document, and if you are going to visit Cusco or Puno or really any parts of Latin America, it’s really interesting.” Read more...
