To The Hebrides (eBook)

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (Autoren)

Ronald Black (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
672 Seiten
Birlinn (Verlag)
978-0-85790-516-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change.
In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

Autor

Ronald Black (Raghnall MacilleDhuibh) is a retired Senior Lecturer in Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh and formerly Gaelic Editor of the Scotsman. He is a regular broadcaster and contributes to a wide variety of newspapers and journals. He lives in Peebles, Scotland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 8pp b/w plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
• Schlagworte: 16th to 18th century • biogrpahy • Classic • classic of Highaldn ethnography • Drama • enterataining book • Essays • Fiction • History • Johnson & Boswell • Johnson and Boswell • Johson's Dictionary of the English Language • Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides • journals • Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland • Letters • Poetry • Ronald Black • Scotland • Scottish fiction • Scottish Islands • Scottish writing • the complete edition • the definitive edition • the english dictionary • the most complete edition ever published • The new edition of To the Hebrides • the only edition with the full text • the original travel book • Travel • Travelogue • Travel writing
• ISBN-10: 0-85790-516-3 / 0857905163
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85790-516-1 / 9780857905161