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

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Penguin Books Limited, 1984 - Literary Collections - 429 pages
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.

About the author (1984)

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

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TitleA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Classics Series
Penguin Classics: Literature
Penguin English library
Penguin classics
AuthorSamuel Johnson
EditorPeter Levi
Compiled byPeter Levi
ContributorPeter Levi
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 1984
ISBN0140432213, 9780140432213
Length429 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Collections / Letters
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Europe / Great Britain
  
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