Samuel Johnson, James Boswell

To The Hebrides

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour
Herausgeber: Black, Ronald

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Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Here, they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn General
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 131mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781780270319
• ISBN-10: 1780270313
• Artikelnr.: 37248063

Autorenporträt

Samuel Johnson, a bookseller's son from Lichfield, achieved fame as a poet and moral essayist before completing his most famous work, The Dictionary of the English Language. James Boswell had known him for exactly ten years when they set out together for the Hebrides in 1773. Son of a Scottish judge and himself a lawyer, Boswell is celebrated as much for the disarming honesty of his diaries as for his great biography of Johnson. Formerly a lecturer in Celtic at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Ronald Black is Gaelic Editor of the Scotsman. As well as various anthologies and studies of eighteenth- and twentieth-century Gaelic verse, he has published The Gaelic Otherworld, a new edition of the folklore collections of the Rev. John Gregorson Campbell of Tiree.