IN 1996 MOTOJOURNALIST AND TRAVEL WRITER CHRISTOPHER P. BAKER SHIPPED HIS BMW R100GS MOTORCYCLE TO CUBA AND RODE 7,000 MILES DURING A THREE-MONTH JOURNEY TO RESEARCH THE MOON CUBA GUIDEBOOK. HIS AWARD-WINNING LITERARY TRAVEL BOOK–MI MOTO FIDEL: MOTORCYCLING THROUGH CASTRO’S CUBA–WAS PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE PRESS
TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR
“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”
Judges, Lowell Thomas Awards
“Mi Moto Fidel is a satisfying and complete portrait of Cuba It’s all here: money, sex, politics, geography, history, cigars, marlin, and, of course, Fidel. Serious travel writing is often intricate and complex. Bikers, it seems, do it better.”
Tim Cahill — Pass the Butterworms and Road Fever
“Baker’s kiss-and-tell account of his romps across Fidel’s island offers a bittersweet glimpse of life inside the last Marxist utopia.”
Jon Lee Anderson — Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“Chris Baker’s chaotic pilgrimage–by turns sharp-eyed, lustful, poetic, feverish and joyful–brings a tropical nation of 10 million to vivid, pulsating life. The motorcycle proves itself, once again, a brilliant, ice-breaking instrument of true travel.”
Ted Simon — Jupiter’s Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph