{"title":"Books by Ernesto Che Guevara","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241465103","title":"The Motorcycle Diaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed \u003ci\u003eLa Poderosa \u003c\/i\u003e('the powerful one'). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey travelled not to visit the usual tourist attractions, but to meet ordinary people and understand Latin American life. In amidst the tales of youthful adventures - of women, wine, thrilling escapes and the power of friendship - the young Che also learns first-hand about poverty, philosophy and philosophy and forms himself into the man who would become the world's most famous and admired revolutionary and freedom fighter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  '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 Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future' \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201636073650,"sku":"9780241465103","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241465103.jpg?v=1786012374"},{"product_id":"9781644211007","title":"Latin America Diaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries, \u003c\/i\u003ethis book is Ernesto Che Guevera's journal documenting the young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 US-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees to Mexico where he encounters Fidel Castro, marking the beginning of a political partnership that profoundly changes the world and Che himself. Includes a foreword by Alberto Granado, Che's companion on his first adventures in Latin America on a vintage Norton motorcycle, and features poems written by young Ernesto inspired by his experiences along with facsimiles of pages from his diary.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204885381298,"sku":"9781644211007","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644211007_f451bb12-9250-44aa-bbb5-f25c6f278566.jpg?v=1786024240"},{"product_id":"9781644212912","title":"Marx \u0026 Engels","description":"\u003cb\u003eA biography of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by Che Guevara, revealing Che’s fervent interest in studying their lives and writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChe Guevara wrote this biographical introduction to Marx and Engels after his 1965 mission to Africa. He studied the writing of the German revolutionaries intensively, and in his travels he immersed himself in the classic works of Marxism. He sought to draw lessons and inspiration from Marx and Engels, and noted: “The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he put aside science to pick up his revolutionary rifle.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMany of Che’s comments about Marx might also refer to Che himself, such as his observation: “Such a humane man whose capacity for affection extended to all those suffering throughout the world, offering a message of committed struggle and indomitable optimism, has been distorted by history and turned into a stone idol.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith his tremendous grasp of theory and his own practical experience, Che observes Marx’s evolution through his own view of radical change in Cuba, considering how it might apply to other countries after they achieve their definitive liberation from colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204885545138,"sku":"9781644212912","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644212912_795dda0b-8d47-4245-aa20-5cb547218fa6.jpg?v=1786024281"},{"product_id":"9781644211700","title":"América Latina","description":"En una carta a su madre en 1954, un joven Ernesto Guevara escribió: \"Las Américas serán el teatro de mis aventuras de una manera mucho más significativa de lo que yo hubiera creído\". En \u003ci\u003eAmerica Latina \u003c\/i\u003ese narra la historia de esas aventuras, trazando la evolución del Che desde el joven e impresionable estudiante de medicina al \"guerrillero heroico\", asesinado a sangre fría en Bolivia. A lo largo de diecisiete años, esta antología se nutre de los archivos personales de su familia y ofrece lo mejor de los escritos del Che: ejemplos de su periodismo, ensayos, discursos, cartas e incluso poemas. A medida que el Che documenta sus primeros viajes por América Latina, su participación en las revoluciones guatemalteca y cubana, y su ascenso a la prominencia internacional bajo el mando de Fidel Castro, vemos cómo su ferviente compromiso con la justicia social moldeó y fue moldeado por el continente al que llamó hogar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasi la mitad de este libro se publica por primera vez y es anterior a la llegada del Che a Cuba con la expedición guerrillera de Fidel Castro en 1956. También se incluyen sus notas para su libro inacabado, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Role of Doctors in Latin America.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204916445362,"sku":"9781644211700","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644211700.jpg?v=1786024247"},{"product_id":"9781644211564","title":"Global Justice","description":"Three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist aggression and exploitation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFirst, in a sharp speech given in Algeria on February 24, 1965 at the Afro-Asia Economic Seminar, Che speaks about the nature of capitalism and the revolutionary struggle that would open the way for a new, socialist society. Guevara's 1965 essay, \"Socialism and Man in Cuba,\" is a milestone in twentieth-century emancipatory social thought. Finally, “Message to the Tricontinental” is one of Che’s more well-known works, which outlines the tactics and strategies that should be followed in revolutionary struggle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis collection of writings merges Che's philosophy, politics, and economics in his all encompassing, coherent revolutionary vision. His ideas and his struggle strike a chord in the current search for global justice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204916805810,"sku":"9781644211564","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644211564_05739a1a-8cf5-42cb-a68f-bfe4815cc6e4.jpg?v=1786024245"},{"product_id":"9781644211649","title":"The Awakening of Latin America","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis classic anthology on Latin America shows the Argentine-born revolutionary's cultural depth, rigorous intellect, and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, “The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening of Latin America \u003c\/i\u003ewe have the story of those adventures, charting Che’s evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the “heroic guerrilla,” assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia. Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his family’s personal archives and offers the best of Che’s writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters, and even poems. As Che documents his early travels through Latin America, his involvement in the Guatemalan and Cuban revolutions, and his rise to international prominence under Fidel Castro, we see how his fervent commitment to social justice shaped and was shaped by the continent he called home.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204918050994,"sku":"9781644211649","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644211649_3ab8d15c-72d1-47e5-a0f6-6024f5d7abfb.jpg?v=1786024246"},{"product_id":"9780241465080","title":"Guerrilla Warfare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics, field medical treatment, intelligence, propaganda and training, and focuses on seven 'golden rules' of guerrilla warfare. 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Together they map the emergence of a dedicated revolutionary, but also reveal him as a master narrator: honest and insightful, with a razor-sharp wit, an iron will and, in his intimate writings to his family, a great capacity to express affection for those closest to him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228521443701,"sku":"9780241465127","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241465127_26a1147a-1b1c-49b1-99d6-39e3abc243d2.jpg?v=1786012376"},{"product_id":"9780241465097","title":"Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful and poetic ... 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