The Condor and the Cows
Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
This title features with an introduction by Pico Iyer. In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. "The Condor and the Cows" is Isherwood's unsentimental and wonderfully rich account of that journey, during which he bumped into a handful of old acquaintances on a brand-new continent.
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First published in 1949, this is a lively memoir of Isherwood's South American travels
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
General Fields
- :
- : Vintage
- : Vintage Classics
- : 0.315
- : 01 May 2013
- : 197mm X 128mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : 918.0433
- : Paperback
- : Christopher Isherwood