A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell and Johnson

by Frank De Laney (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  This travel book retraces Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. The book tells in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history, their whisky distilleries, the Loch Ness monster, their literature and songs, their food and hospitality, their lochs and harbours and sea-sounds - all observed via a stream of anecdotes. Johnson's book A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and Boswell's book Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson are compared throughout.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.25

  This travel book retraces Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. The book is a walk in the company of these two men, telling in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history, their whisky distilleries, the Loch Ness monster, their literature and songs, their food and hospitality, their lochs and harbours and sea-sounds - all observed via a stream of anecdotes. Johnson's book A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and Boswell's book Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson are compared throughout.