A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell

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

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell

416 pages • first pub 1775 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel reflective slow-paced
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Two of the eighteenth century's preeminent writers spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland together. Being literary gentlemen, they took extensive notes. Five years away from producing his famous dictionary, Samuel Johnson hoped to encounter rom...

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