The Journey to the Western Islands Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson
429 pages
Penguin
Sep 1984
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<b>&quot;I mentioned our design to Voltaire,&quot; wrote Boswell. &quot;He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole ... &quot;</b><br><br>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 &quot;the mischiefs of emigration.&quot; 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 <i>The Life of Johnson</i>.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Pages 429
Publisher Penguin
Published 1984
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