A Journey To The Western Islands Of Scotland And The Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857905161

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To The Hebrides by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192519566

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

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 explanations on Johnson and Boswell's respective careers, their friendship and grand biographical projects. It also examines the Scottish Enlightenment, the status of England and Scotland during the Reformation through to the Union of the Crowns, and the Jacobite

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : NYPL:33433069350084

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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847675385

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Journey to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OXFORD:590544110

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : BL:A0022796894

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Frank Delaney
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016472172

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A Walk to the Western Isles by Frank Delaney Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198798743

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.

Author : Sameul Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359927203

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Sameul Johnson Pdf

ABOUT A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson�then 63�and his young friend and future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around the coast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-day journey. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Litres
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041627898

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001102453706

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, by Dr Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375414183

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

When in 1773 James Boswell persuaded the great Samuel Johnson—then aged sixty-three—to embark with him on a tour of Boswell’s native Scotland, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson’s JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND and Boswell’s JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES. Later published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands at a turning point in its history, but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined. Johnson offers a magisterial account of a remote and rugged land and of its people, whose traditional way of life, in the wake of the failed Jacobite uprising, was tragically under threat. Boswell focuses instead on the psychological landscape of his famously gruff and witty companion, throwing further light on the friend and mentor whom he later immortalized in the masterly biography that would make his name. Read together, the two accounts form a unique classic of travel writing, a brilliant portrait of two temperamentally different and very talented men exploring a feudal world on the brink of vanishing.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368317232

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson Pdf

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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023175332

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland ... First American edition by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Hebrides
ISBN : IND:30000009176987

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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson Pdf