The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Paperback - 1984
by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Peter Levi (Editor)
Summary
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. The year was 1773, they were sixty-three and thirty-two years old, and had been friends for ten years.
Their journals, published together here, perfectly complement each other. Johnson's majestic prose and hawk eye for curious detail take in everything from the stone arrowheads found in the Hebrides, to the 'medicinal' waters of Loch Ness and 'the mischiefs of emigration'. Meanwhile, it is very lucky that as Johnson was observing Scotland, Boswell was observing Johnson. His record is perceptive, highly entertaining and full of sardonic wit; for him, as for us, it is an appetizer for The Life of Johnson.
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I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
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- Title The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
- Author Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Peter Levi (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date September 4, 1984
- ISBN 9780140432213 / 0140432213
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.88 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Highlands (Scotland) - Description and travel, Scotland - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94169674
- Dewey Decimal Code 914.111
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