The book of the popular movie STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon. A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'. --Eduardo Galeano When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner... To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been... --Aleida Guevara Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it. --Walter Salles, director of The Motorcycle Diaries.

As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him.--January Magazine Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4) Features of this edition include: A preface by Che Guevara's daughter Aleida Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet Photos & maps from the original journey Postcript: Che's personal reflections on his formative years: A child of my environment. Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

Das Kapital meets Easy Rider.(Times)

A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac.(Washington Post)

Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, Iturned into we.(Eduardo Galeano)

An extraordinary first-person account. It redoubles his image and lends a touch of humanity with enough rough edges to invite controversy.(Los Angeles Times Book Review)

For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. (Time)

There is pathos in these pages the pathos of Che himself, ever thoughtful, ever willing to sacrifice all, burning with guilt over his own privileges and never letting his sufferings impede him.(New Yorker)

This candid journal, part self-discovery, part fieldwork, glimmers with portents of the future revolutionary.(PublishersWeekly)

A revolutionary bestsellerIts true, Marxists just wanna have fun.(Guardian)

What distinguishes these diariesis that they reveal a human side to El

Che which historians have successfully managed to suppress.(Financial Times)

This book should do much to humanize the image of a man who found his apotheosis as a late 60s cultural icon. It is also, incidentally, a remarkably good travel book about South America.(The Scotsman)

- The publication of this new, expanded edition of The Motorcycle Diaries coincides with the release of Robert Redford's new film based on the Diaries.
- This film and another forthcoming from Steven Soderbergh in Fall 2003 will provoke even greater "Che-mania" and increase sales of all Ocean's titles on Che Guevara.

These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorcycle. He encounters an extraordinary range of people-from native Indians to copper miners, lepers and tourists-experiencing hardships and adventures that informed much of his later life.

This expanded, new edition from Ocean Press, published with exclusive access to the Che Guevara Archives held in Havana, includes a preface by Che's daughter, Aleida Guevara. It also features previously unpublished photos (taken by Che on his travels), as well as new, unpublished parts of the diaries, poems and letters.

"A Latin James Dean or Jack Kerouac."-Washington Post

"For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Che Guevara has emerged to predict his own revolutionary future."-Time

The publication of this new, expanded edition of The Motorcycle Diaries coincides with the release of Robert Redford's new film based on the Diaries. This film and another forthcoming from Steven Soderbergh in Fall 2003 will provoke even greater "Che-mania" and increase sales of all Ocean's titles on Che Guevara.

These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorcycle. He encounters an extraordinary range of people — from native Indians to copper miners, lepers and tourists — experiencing hardships and adventures that informed much of his later life.

This expanded, new edition from Ocean Press, published with exclusive access to the Che Guevara Archives held in Havana, includes a preface by Che's daughter, Aleida Guevara. It also features previously unpublished photos (taken by Che on his travels), as well as new, unpublished parts of the diaries, poems and letters.

In January 2004, the film by the same name, The Motorcycle Diaries, will have its world premiere at the Sundance International Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. Directed by Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun), produced by Robert Redford and with a screenplay by José Rivera, the film stars the up-and-coming Mexican actor Gael García Bernal (Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También, The Crimes of Father Amaro).

Ernesto Che Guevara was a leading member of the revolutionary government in Cuba after 1959. He was appointed Minister of Industry and later, as head of the Cuban National Bank, his simple signature of "Che"on Cuba's banknotes angered the heads of international banks and finance capital who considered it a denigration of his office.

Preface, by Aleida Guevara March

Preface to the first edition, by Aleida March

Ernesto Che Guevara

Brief chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara

Map and Itinerary of The Motorcycle Diaries

Introduction, by Cintio Vitier

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES

So we understand each other

Forewarnings

The discovery of the ocean

...Lovesick pause

Breaking the last tie

For the flu: bed

San Martín de los Andes

Circular exploration

Dear Mama

The seven lakes road

And now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and...

Curious objects

“The Experts”

The difficulties intensify

La Poderosa II’s final tour

Firefighters, workers and other matters

La Gioconda’s smile

Stowaways

This time, disaster

Chuquicamata

Arid land for miles and miles

The end of Chile

Chile, a vision from afar

Tarata, the new world

In the dominion of Pachamama

Lake of the sun

Toward the navel of the world

The navel!

The land of the Incas

Lord of the earthquakes 111

Homeland for the victor

Cuzco straight

Huambo

Ever northward

Through the center of Peru

Shattered hopes

The city of the viceroys

Down the Ucayali

Dear Papi

The San Pablo leper colony

Saint Guevara’s day

Debut for the little Kontiki

Dear Mama

On the road to Caracas

This strange twentieth century

A note in the margin

Appendix: A child of my environment(Speech to medical students, 1960)