The Condor and the Cows

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn 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-n...