A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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James Boswell Samuel Johnson

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Peter Levi

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Penguin Classics
26 January 2006

Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic travel writing

Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell's diary, published after Johnson's death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), offers an intimate personal record of Johnson's behavior and conversation during the trip.

By: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson
Edited by: Peter Levi
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN: 9780140432213
ISBN 10: 0140432213
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 26 January 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, with his good friend and fellow traveller James Boswell, a biographer. l