Travelling With Che Guevara : The Making of a Revolutionary

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 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike and travelled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. Working as casual labourers along the way—as football coaches, medical assistants, and haulage hands—the poverty and exploitation of the native population they witnessed changed them forever.

Each man later wrote an account of the journey. Alberto Granado realised later in his life that what they saw and encountered represented a crucial turning point. It strengthened Alberto's determination to forge his career as a scientist. And it started the process that was to turn Ernesto—the debonair, fun-loving student—into Che, the man who fought for the liberation of Cuba and became the heroic warrior fighting for freedom and social justice, who remains to this day Latin America's foremost hero and one of the world's great revolutionaries.

A companion to Che's Motorcycle Diaries, this is a moving and at times hilarious account of how two carefree young men found their true purpose in life.