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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics)
James Boswell
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Description for A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics)
Paperback. Editor(s): Levi, Peter. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140432213
SKU
V9780140432213
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About James Boswell
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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