The Condor and the Cows

ISBN-13: 9780099561187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str.

Christopher Isherwood

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In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, the author and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. This title offers an account of that journey, during which he bumped into a handful of old acquaintances on a brand-new continent.

Recenzje

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O autorze

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works: Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.