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

James Boswell (author), Samuel Johnson (author), Peter Levi (editor)

Paperback Published on: 26/01/2006

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Synopsis

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.