Making use of unprecedented access to Guevara's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biography traces the life of the Latin American communist revolutionary.

Includes maps of: Motorcycle Diaries Trip, 1952; Otra Vez Trip, 1954-1954; Sierra Maestra, 1956-1959; Cuba; Congo, 1965; Bolivian Odyssey, 1966-1967.

Introduction to the revised edition -- Part One. Unquiet Youth : 1. A plantation in Misiones -- 2. The dry climate of Alta Gracia -- 3. The boy of many names -- 4. His own man -- 5. Escape to the north -- 6. I am not the person I was before -- 7. Without knowing which way is north -- 8. Finding north -- 9. Days without shame or glory -- 10. A terrible shower of cold water -- 11. My proletarian life -- 12. God and his new right hand -- 13. The sacred flame within me ; Part Two. Becoming Che : 14. A disastrous beginning -- 15. Days of water and bombs -- 16. Lean cows and horsemeat -- 17. Enemies of all kinds -- 18. Extending the war -- 19. The final push ; Part Three. Making the New Man : 20. The supreme prosecutor -- 21. My historic duty -- 22. We are the future and we know it -- 23. Individualism must disappear -- 24. These atomic times -- 25. Guerrilla watershed -- 26. The long good-bye -- 27. The story of a failure -- 28. No turning back -- 29. Necessary sacrifice -- Epilogue : Dreams and curses.