Ebook: To the Hebrides: Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour
- Tags: Authors English--18th century, Authors Scottish--18th century--Diaries, Boswell James 1740-1795--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides, Hebrides (Scotland)--Description and travel, Johnson Samuel 1709-1784--Travel--Scotland--Hebrides, Scotland--Description and travel, Western Isles (Scotland)--Description and travel, Authors English -- 18th century -- Biography, Authors Scottish -- 18th century -- Diaries, Boswell James 1740-1795 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides, Hebrides (Scotland) -- Description and tr
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Birlinn
- City: Edinburgh
- Language: English
- epub
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also magnificent historical documents as well as portraits of two extraordinary men of letters. Together they paint a vivid picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment. Entert.
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