Book description
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result
of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell
in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion,
education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The
account in Boswell's diary, published after Johnson's death as The
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. (1785),
offers an intimate personal record of Johnson's behavior and
conversation during the trip. 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
