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The condor and the cows : a South American travel diary / Christopher Isherwood ; photographs by William Caskey ; foreword by Jeffrey Meyers.
LIBRA - Special F2223 .I8 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.
- Travel.
- South America--Description and travel.
- South America.
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986--Travel.
- Isherwood, Christopher.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 217 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, 1 map : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Minnesota Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- One of the few classic works of South American travel, now available in paperback with a new foreword by Jeffrey Meyers and additional photographs by Isherwood's lover, Bill Caskey. Isherwood frankly depicts the squalor and discomforts of his journey--as he wrote he was very skeptical about the book but later came to regard it as one of his best.
- Contents:
- The voyage out
- Up the river
- In Bogotá
- The road to Ecuador
- Oil in the jungle
- Into Peru
- Lima and Arequipa
- On the plateau
- Titicaca and La Paz
- The city and the plains
- Some thoughts in Buenos Aires.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Methuen, 1949.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0816639825
- 9780816639823
- OCLC:
- 53019491
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