A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) Book

It is said that Johnson merely enjoyed the journey whilst Boswell thought it delightful.Their journals published here together might be thought then to compliment each other exactly.Johnson had the writer's eye for detail and was observing Scotland whilst Boswell was observing Johnson. Perceptive,entertaining and full of sardonic wit.Read More

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  • Foyles

    First 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. offers an intimate personal record of their journey as well as of 18th century behaviour and conversation.

  • Penguin

    'I mentioned our design to Voltaire,' wrote Boswell. 'He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole...' As it turned out, Johnson enjoyed their Scottish journey (although the land was not quite so wild and barbaric as perhaps he had hoped), and Boswell delighted in it.

  • Blackwell

    This text contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade and agriculture of a society that was new to him. Boswell offers an intimate personal record of Johnson's behavior and conversation during the trip.

  • Pickabook

    Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Peter Levi (Editor)

  • 0140432213
  • 9780140432213
  • Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
  • 26 January 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
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