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  <abstract>"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.)</abstract>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland</note>
  <note>Release date is 2000-02-01</note>
  <note>Transcribed from the 1775 edition with the corrections noted in the 1785 errata by David Price</note>
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    <topic>Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides</topic>
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