Revolutionary Road

The Washington Post | May 21, 2000| | Copyright

CHASING CHE

A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

By Patrick Symmes

Vintage. 302 pp. Paperback, $13

Patrick Symmes is a much better writer than Ernesto "Che" Guevara ever was, and a keener, more reflective traveler. This is a mercy for the reader, and Symmes's sensibility works on an old story to bring it to an unexpected ending.

In 1952, when he was 22 years old, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, an Argentine medical student, embarked on a motorcycle journey through Chile and Peru. He traveled with Alberto Granados, a friend and colleague. They each kept a diary. Years later, when ...

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