A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$39.67
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2006
Summary
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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432213 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140432213 |
| Author: | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Peter Levi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2006 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin English Library |
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Samuel Johnson
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.
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