A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Oxford World's Classics
- Forfattere: Samuel Johnson , James Boswell
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 576
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Oxford World's Classics
- EAN: 9780198798743
- Utgivelsesår: 2020
- Bidragsyter: Johnson, Samuel; Boswell, James
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson''s most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the Poets. The other, Boswell''s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (1785), a travel narrative experimenting with biography, the first application of the techniques he would use in his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). These two works form a natural pair and, owing that they cover much of the same material, are often read together, focusing on the Scottish highlands.The text presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit modern grammar standards. The introduction and notes provide clear and concise expla
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