How long does it take to read The Motorcycle Diaries?
Che Guevara, Ann Wright, Ann (translator) Guevara Ernesto; Wright, Aleida Guevara, Walter Salles, Cintio Vitier
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara, Ann Wright, Ann (translator) Guevara Ernesto; Wright, Aleida Guevara, Walter Salles, Cintio Vitier takes about 3 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 173 pages, about 47,575 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Motorcycle Diaries is a memoir by the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, published after his death. It recounts a journey begun in January 1952, when Guevara, then a medical student of twenty-three, sets out from Buenos Aires with Alberto Granado, a biochemist six years older. Riding a worn-out 1939 Norton nicknamed La Poderosa, the two want to see a South America they know only from books. Over roughly nine months, by motorcycle and many other means, they cross the Andes, a desert and the Amazon basin, and Guevara is changed by the social injustice he meets.
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Subjects: Friends and associates, Description and travel, Diaries, Journeys, Scientists, Social conditions
