Travel/Literature

“A very entertaining narrative . . . One is immensely grateful to the writer for having suffered the discomforts of dreary journeys by train, dangerous drives along precipices, and repellent accommodations in order to tell us, in pleasantly assimilable prose, what is to be found in these inaccessible places.” Edmund Wilson, New Yorker

“It makes the big, sad, mist-shrouded, sun-parched continent to the south of us come alive with an emotional impact, a vividness, and sense of tangible reality.” New York Times

“Isherwood’s eye and wit are as lively as ever-the same quick sympathies, the squirrelish scrutiny, the open nerves and senses. . . . His gift and his eye are a poet’s, and these permit his final pages to rise to an eloquence and vision of their own.” The Nation

University of Minnesota Press
Printed in U.S.A.
Cover design by Susan Walsh
Cover photograph by William Caskey