TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Samuel TI - A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AV - DA PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 KW - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides KW - Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Travel -- Scotland -- Hebrides KW - Hebrides (Scotland) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland; Release date is 2000-02-01; Transcribed from the 1775 edition with the corrections noted in the 1785 errata by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2064 ER -