Indeed, he had only one rival - Winston Churchill, whose declining years are one of the central themes of the diaries, the last of three volumes.
The real theme of The Motorcycle Diaries, though, is of course Guevara's political awakening, as exemplified by a passage in which he meets a poverty-stricken old woman suffering from asthma (as did he) and heart trouble.
Continuing with the joint-venture theme, good friends of the diary Leeds Gallery Munro House and Café 164 deserve a quick plug for "#CYCLISM", an exhibition "of all things pedal-powered on two wheels".
Ageing is inevitably a theme of the new book, the diary entries pitted with the melancholy appointments of decline: colonoscopies, ultrasounds, funerals, memorial services.
Sticking with the biblical theme, the Diary wonders whether Fox Searchlight might be missing a trick with The Tree of Life.
The major recurring themes in the diary entries were health system deficiencies, human resource challenges, and an unsupportive management environment – these problems are inter-related and contributed to the difficulties of working in or managing these PHC clinics.
To ensure reliability, two researchers (an experienced qualitative researcher with health system experience and a nurse academic) participated in the development of the themes by reading the diary entries independently from the first researcher in order to establish inter-coder agreement (40, 41).
If you are traveling to a specific destination, you may want to buy a diary that matches the theme of the country you are traveling to.
Once agreement was reached on the themes, the diary entries were grouped into the various themes (40).
The writing of the diary is terrific.
