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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
Category: Travel | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form a co ...Show more
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Jack Lynch (Editor); Celia Barnes (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind oflocodescriptive ethnog ...Show more
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson & James Boswell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
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