Johnson, Samuel,  1709-1784 <br/><br/>
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland  Release date is 2000-02-01 
<br/><br/>Transcribed from the 1775 edition with the corrections noted in the 1785 errata by David Price  Transcribed from the 1775 edition with the corrections noted in the 1785 errata by David Price 
<br/><br/> "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" by Samuel Johnson is a travel narrative published in 1775. It chronicles Johnson's eighty-three-day journey through Scotland's Highlands and Hebrides islands in 1773, accompanied by his friend James Boswell. Johnson explores a rapidly changing Scotland still marked by clan traditions, primitive conditions, and depopulation. He observes Scottish life, language, customs, and landscapes, capturing a romantic yet vanishing world that existed somewhere between medieval and modern times. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides Hebrides (Scotland) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA