A journey to the western islands of Scotland
This text contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade and agriculture of a society that was new to him. Boswell offers an intimate personal record of Johnson’s behavior and conversation during the trip.
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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 and conversation during the trip.
Additional information
| Weight | 319 g |
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| Dimensions | 198 × 128 × 22 mm |
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| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| Imprint | Penguin Classics |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 429 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 914.1110473 (edition:19) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |