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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : NLS:B000036096
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315043434
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : UCSD:31822043033042
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732693450
Reproduction of the original: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : OCLC:433809669
Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192519559
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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : 0760783365
Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847675385
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 : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000591949
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722603038
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Frank Delaney
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016472172
Author : Samuel Johnson,Queen Victoria,Neil Munro
Publisher : Palimpsest Book Production Limited
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781910486160
A Scottish lost treasures collection of three classic Scottish travelogues, each offering a superbly descriptive narrative. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857905161
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 : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375414183
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 : Unknown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : OCLC:1244841119
[Johnson's and Boswell's journals, describing their Scottish journey of 1773 (when they were sixty-three and thirty-two years old, and had been friends for ten years)], 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' water 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.
