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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Introduction by Allan Massie [With Ribbon Marker]

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides; Introduction by Allan Massie [With Ribbon Marker]

Massie, Allan
Johnson, Samuel
Boswell, James

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Literary FiguresTravel WritingGreat Britain

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0375414185
ISBN13: 9780375414183
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Mar 26 2002
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.29 Width: 5.75 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Johnson and Boswell's classics of travel writing, presented together in a stunning collector's hardcover edition.

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.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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