The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9
Subtitle: A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland (The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel)
Contributors: Mary Lascelles (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1971
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780300012514
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Scotland; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.