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

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson

Penguin UK, Jan 26, 2006 - Travel - 432 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.

Contents

• Acknowledgements: 9
• Introduction: 11
• Map of Johnsons and Boswells Route: 29
• A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND: 33
• THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES: 153
• Notes: 413

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Penguin classics
• Authors: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson
• Editor: Peter Levi
• Publisher: Penguin UK, 2006
• ISBN: 0141904356, 9780141904351
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Letters; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Travel / Europe / Great Britain