A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By (Author) James Boswell
By (author) Samuel Johnson
Edited by Peter Levi
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
26th January 2006
31st May 1984
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Classic travel writing
914.1110473
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
319g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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
