Ernesto 'Che' Guevara · 1952 · overland

Ernesto Guevara's memoir of his 1952 journey. A young medical student and his friend Alberto Granado ride a wheezing motorcycle out of Buenos Aires, down through Patagonia to Bariloche, over the Andes into Chile, and up the spine of the continent - the Atacama, Cusco and Machu Picchu, a Peruvian leper colony on the Amazon - a trip that turns a privileged student into the man who became Che.

1. 1
   Buenos Aires

   Two friends set out on an old Norton to see the continent.

2. 2
   Bariloche

   Across the pampas to Patagonia's lakes, the bike already failing.

3. 3
   Temuco, Chile

   Over the Andes into Chile, where La Poderosa finally dies.

4. 4
   Valparaíso

   On foot and by truck now, they reach the Pacific port.

5. 5
   Chuquicamata mine

   At the great copper mine, Ernesto sees the cost of exploited labour.

6. 6
   Cusco

   In the old Inca capital the weight of conquest and poverty hits home.

7. 7
   Machu Picchu

   Among the ruins, he reflects on a lost American civilisation.

8. 8
   Lima

   A doctor's kindness sends them on toward the Amazon.

9. 9
   San Pablo (Amazon)

   At a riverside leper colony, the trip's ideals take lasting shape.

10. 10
    Caracas

    The journey ends in Venezuela, the two friends going separate ways.