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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, in full The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., work by James Boswell, published in 1785. The book is an account of the trip that Boswell took with Samuel Johnson to Scotland in 1773. The journal is mainly Boswell’s record of Johnson’s reactions to the people, landscapes, and customs they encountered along the way. Johnson published his own account of the trip in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775).
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