The Condor and the Cows
- ISBN-10
- 0099561182
- ISBN-13
- 9780099561187
- Category
- South America
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Random House
- Authors
- Pico Iyer, Jeffrey Meyers, Christopher Isherwood
Description
"An account of Isherwood's expedition in 1947-8 around South America and featuring photographs by his travelling partner, Bill Caskey, this book is unique in the author's canon, and felt by Isherwood to be amongst his most important. 'A very entertaining narrative' Edmund Wilson"
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