Journey

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

by James Boswell

In the autumn of 1773 James Boswell took Samuel Johnson through the Highlands and the Western Isles, a journey Johnson had wanted to make since boyhood. Boswell’s father was laird of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, a few miles from the farm at Mauchline where Burns wrote many of his best poems. Boswell published his journal in 1785, the year before the Kilmarnock edition.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 8 hr 20 min

Where to find it

The Burns Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #6018. In the public domain in the United States.