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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
by Johnson, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Baltimore: Philip H. Nicklin and Co.; Farrand, Mallory and co. Boston; J. Green, Albany; E. Earle and B. B. Hopkins and Co., Philadelphia, 1810. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +. Small 8vo, 284pp, marbled end papers. Gilt stamped calf, gilt title at gilt ruled spine. Chipped at spine ends, cracked at spine along the front board. Some light foxing and browning of early leaves; owner name and inscription front free end paper. Shaw and Shoemaker 20456. Fry and Kammerer, printers.
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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- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18931
- Title
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- Author
- Johnson, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Philip H. Nicklin and Co.; Farrand, Mallory and co. Boston; J. Green, Albany; E. Earle and B. B. Hopkins and Co., Philadelphia
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1810
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