118500: The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Subtitle: Containing some poetical pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the tour, and never before published; a series of his conversation, literary anecdotes, and opinions of men and books: with an authentick account of the distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II. in the year 1746.

The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. is a travel journal by Scotsman James Boswell, first published in 1785 by Charles Dilly, London. The account describes Boswell’s 1773 tour of the highlands and western islands of Scotland undertaken with his friend Samuel Johnson, writer and lexicographer.

Online copies of the first edition can be accessed via the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

 

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Record Type:
Resource
Date Of Source:
1785
Source Type:
Book
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