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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.
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Samuel Johnson
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- Released
- 1984
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Samuel Johnson
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0140432213
- ISBN13
- 9780140432213
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Travel, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Scotland, 18th century
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- 3.5 out of 5
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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.