Author : James Boswell
Publisher : London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Hebrides
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857905163
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
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1847675387
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accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities.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 : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2023-02-23
Category :
ISBN : 9783375151553
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1824
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300244967
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781986261777
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
