Back on the Road : Ernesto Che Guevara
Author: Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: Groove Press
Publication Date: 17 September 2002
ISBN: 0802139426
No Of Pages: 160 pages
Rating: 3/5
Back on the Road is a personal text of Ernesto
Che Guevara’s long journey through the American continent in his simmering
surge to ‘explore America’. The descriptions rich with the spirit of youth gives the reader a clear
image of a young Argentine doctor’s gradual development in to a full
revolutionary icon.
The text contains numerous letters to his
mother soaked with love and affection describing to her even the
tiny details of their journey. from the way Che Guevara writes it the
reader is able to evaluate the perception of his surroundings. His personal
views, beliefs and policies become very candid through the lines
that we are able to add full color to the image of the
great Argentine revolutionary icon which we each have nurtured within.
The book also comprises of many rare and candid photographs of Che with many acquaintances.