A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
I mentioned our design to Voltaire, wrote Boswell. He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole …As it turned out, Johnson enjoyed their Scottish journey (although the land was not quite so wild and barbaric as perhaps he had hoped), and Boswell delighted in it. The year was 1773, they were sixty-three and thirty-two years old, and had been friends for ten years. Their journals, published together here, perfectly complement each other. Johnson's majestic prose and hawk eye for curious detail take in everything from the stone arrowheads found in the Hebrides, to the 'medicinal' waters of Loch Ness and the mischiefs of emigrati…
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Weitere Autoren: Johnson, Samuel / Levi, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-043221-3
- EAN: 9780140432213
- Produktnummer: 9280782
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1984
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.6 cm 316 g
- Gewicht: 316
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, with his good friend and fellow traveller James Boswell, a biographer. l
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