Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides, Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides, Hebrides (Scotland) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, DA, I
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was also keeping a record of the trip, published in 1785 as A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. The two narratives are often published as a single volume, which is beneficial for comparing two perspectives of the same events, although they are very different in approach---Johnson focused on Scotland, and Boswell focused on Johnson. (Boswell went on to write a famous biography of Johnson.) From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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