A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travelogue by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two year-old friend of many years James Boswell.
Their travels through a wild and often lawless Scotland, a Scotland that was changing through the Highland clearances and attacks on scottish culture.
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