Journey To The Hebrides

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Canongate Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,5 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accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities.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 : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780226471730

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Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting Pdf

Few landscapes are as striking as that of the Hebrides, the hundreds of small islands that speckle the waters off Scotland’s northwest coast. The jagged, rocky cliffs and roiling waves serve as a reminder of the islands’ dramatic geological history, inspiring awe and dread in those drawn there. With Britain at their back and facing the Atlantic, the Hebrides were at the center of ancient shipping routes and have a remarkable cultural history as well, as a meeting place for countless cultures that interacted with a long, rich Gaelic tradition. After years of hearing about Scotland as a place deeply interwoven with the story of her family, Madeleine Bunting was driven to see for herself this place so symbolic and full of history. Most people travel in search of the unfamiliar, to leave behind the comfort of what’s known to explore some suitably far-flung corner of the globe. From the first pages, it’s clear that Madeleine Bunting’s Love of Country marks a different kind of journey—one where all paths lead to a closer understanding of home, but a home bigger than Bunting’s corner of Britain, the drizzly, busy streets of London with their scream of sirens and high-rise developments crowding the sky. Over six years, Bunting returned again and again to the Hebrides, fascinated by the question of what it means to belong there, a question that on these islands has been fraught with tenacious resistance and sometimes tragedy. With great sensitivity, she takes readers through the Hebrides’ history of dispossession and displacement, a history that can be understand only in the context of Britain’s imperial past, and she shows how the Hebrides have been repeatedly used to define and imagine Britain. In recent years, the relationship between Britain and Scotland has been subject to its most testing scrutiny, and Bunting’s travels became a way to reflect on what might be lost and what new possibilities might lie ahead. For all who have wondered how it might feel to stand face-out at the edge of home, Love of Country is a revelatory journey through one of the world’s most remote, beautiful landscapes that encourages us to think of the many identities we wear as we walk our paths, and how it is possible to belong to many places while at the same time not wholly belonging to any.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : BL:A0022796893

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

Author : Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Crofts
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019660307

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Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell Pdf

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UCSD:31822043011402

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

Author : Peter May
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781623657949

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Hebrides by Peter May Pdf

Since the publication of The Blackhouse in 2011, the books of Peter May's groundbreaking Lewis Trilogy have enthralled millions of readers around the world with powerfully evocative descriptions of the Outer Hebrides. From its peat bogs and heather-coated hills, from its weather-beaten churches and crofters cottages to its cold clear rills choked with rainwater, the islands off the northwest coast of Scotland have been brought to vivid life by this accomplished novelist. Now, Peter May and photographer David Wilson present a photographic record of the countless locations around the Hebridean archipelago that so inspired May when he was bringing the islands of detective Fin McLeod's childhood to the page. From the tiny southern island of Barra to the largest and most northern island of Lewis, travel the storm-whipped North Atlantic scenery with May as he once again strolls the wild and breathtaking countryside that gave birth to his masterful trilogy of novels.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Richard Barrett
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783625079

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The Hebridean Way by Richard Barrett Pdf

Officially launched in 2017, the Hebridean Way offers walkers the opportunity to experience the magic of Scotland's Outer Hebrides in one inspirational journey. The waymarked route stretches 247km (155 miles) from Vatersay to Stornaway, linking ten major islands of the archipelago by means of causeways and two ferry crossings: Vatersay, Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, Grimsay, North Uist, Berneray, Harris and Lewis. Suitable for most walkers with a moderate level of fitness, it can be completed in 8-14 days and is rich in natural, historical and cultural interest. This guidebook presents the Hebridean Way in 10 stages of 16-35km (10-22 miles), plus two additional stages to extend the route to the Butt of Lewis in line with future plans. Detailed route description is accompanied by 1:50,000 OS mapping, stunning photography to whet your appetite and a wealth of information about local points of interest. The introduction offers an overview of the islands' geology, history, plants and wildlife as well as comprehensive practical advice for walking the route, such as when to go, how to get there (and back) and what to take. Accommodation listings can be found in the appendices. The route is a celebration of the diverse landscapes of the Hebrides, from dazzling white shell beaches to wild moorland and flower-strewn machair. It visits Neolithic and Bronze Age remains, ruined forts and castles and monuments commemorating Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Highland Land Struggle. The islands are also a great location to spot seabirds, raptors and a number of migratory species.

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192519559

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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 : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Classic Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 158201230X

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A Journey to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson Pdf

High quality reprint of A Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson.

Author : Mairi Hedderwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781788854504

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An Eye on the Hebrides by Mairi Hedderwick Pdf

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, Mairi Hedderwick portrays the islands in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the truly magical beauty of the Hebrides.

Author : Frank Delaney
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Frank Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178907083X

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The Changing Outer Hebrides by Frank Rennie Pdf