Saturday, 20 December 2014

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.