A journey to the western islands of Scotland / Samuel Johnson. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / James Boswell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Celia Barnes and Jack Lynch.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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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 100 days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, 'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland', 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 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D', a travel narrative experimenting with biography, the first application of the techniques he would use in his 'Life of Samuel Johnson'. These two works form a natural pair and, owing that they cover much of the same material, are often read together. The text presents a lightly-edited version of both works, preserving the original orthography and corrected typographical errors to fit modern grammar standards.

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