A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
by Samuel Johnson
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Samuel Johnson
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell.
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Octavo. 254 pp, set in Monotype Bell and printed on Fabriano Tiepolo wove, pure cotton paper in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 3). Bound in leather with marbled boards, in a slipcase, titles and decoration to spine gilt, marbled edges.
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Synopsis
"I mentioned our design to Voltaire," wrote Boswell. "He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole " 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 'the mischiefs of emigration'. 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 The Life of Johnson .
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- Regency Books 1811 (PL)
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- Title
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- Author
- Samuel Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Bound by hand in half-leather and marble paper sides, in a slipcase.
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Rambler Press
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
- Date Published
- 2018
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Scotland, Journey
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