Award-winning travel book provides a perfect companion reader to director Walter Salles 'The Motorcycle Diaries.'

Christopher P. Bakers award-winning travelog, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castros Cuba, provides a literary mirror-image and perfect companion reader to Walter Salles 'The Motorcycle Diaries, due for release on September 24, 2004.

OAKLAND, CA (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- Brazilian director Walter Salles latest movie, 'The Motorcycle Diaries, promises to boost sales of Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castros Cuba, Christopher P. Bakers award-winning literary mirror-image of the Salle movie. Mi Moto Fidel provides a perfect companion reader to the movie, due for release on September 24, 2004.
   
Based on an adaptation of Che Guevaras account of his six-month odyssey around South America in 1952 on a 500cc Norton motorcycle, 'The Motorcycle Diaries reveals the youthful Argentinians extraordinary coming of age in a rite of passage that parallels that of Mi Moto Fidel. Bakers own motorcycle diary -- winner of both the 2002 Lowell Thomas Award Travel Book of the Year" and the Grand Prize" in the North American Travel Journalist Associations Awards of Excellence -- records the authors own emotionally and erotically charged three-month, 7,000-mile peregrination through Cuba, undertaken in 1996 on a 1,000cc BMW motorcycle.
   
The film, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal as the young Che Guevara, depicts how Ches journey sparked a dawning of his social conscience that would propel the future guerrilla leader into a revolutionary icon worldwide. Ches tilt toward communism found its full blossoming when he became Cubas Minister of Finance & Industry following the triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959. Four decades later, Bakers journey through the forbidden, adoptive island of Che spawns its own epiphanies, resulting in a remarkable travelog that Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, calls a bittersweet glimpse of life inside the last Marxist utopia."
   
Philosophically Che and I started at a similar reference point; ultimately, by contrast, my own Cuban journey tilted me the other way," writes Baker, winner of numerous literary awards and the author of five books about Cuba, including the recently-released Cuba Classics: A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles.
   
Mi Moto Fidel (National Geographic Adventure Press, 2001) has been widely acclaimed for its deeply-scored portraits and penetrating analysis. This is a wonderful adventure book...a meditation on philosophy, politics, and the possibilities of physical love. It has the depth of a novel and the feeling of a great love story," commented the Lowell Thomas Award judges.
   
Paperback editions are available wherever books are sold. Hardback copies are available through the author: www.travelguidebooks.com

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