Title | : | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
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Author | : | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson & Peter Levi |
Release | : | 2006-01-26 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Travel Essays & Memoirs, Books, Travel & Adventure, Nonfiction, Travel in Europe, Biographies & Memoirs |
Size | : | 7439913 |
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. |