{"title":"Travel \u0026 Exploration","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"samuel-johnson-a-journey-to-the-western-islands-of-scotland-first-edition-1775","title":"Samuel Johnson – A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland – First Edition, 1775","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJOHNSON, Samuel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1775. 8vo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003efirst edition, first impression\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of Samuel Johnson’s celebrated account of his journey through Scotland and the Hebrides with James Boswell in 1773.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohnson had long wished to visit the Highlands and islands, and at the age of sixty-three finally undertook the expedition with Boswell as his companion. Travelling through Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Skye and the Hebrides, Johnson recorded not simply the landscape but the language, religion, customs, economy and changing social structure of the communities he encountered. His observations — characteristically forthright, sceptical and frequently entertaining — produced one of the great works of eighteenth-century British travel literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContemporary Johnsonian Satire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe present copy is particularly appealing for an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeighteenth-century printed satire on Johnson’s prose style tipped in at the rear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Headed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the St. James’s Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and entitled:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Pedestrious Ramble from Hyde-Park Corner to Farnham, written for the Encouragement of Johnson’s Dictionary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe piece affectionately lampoons Johnson’s celebrated preference for elaborate and Latinate vocabulary. 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Compiled from his Original Works, and Other Authentic Sources, by John Campbell, Esq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e London: Printed for A. K. Newman \u0026amp; Co., Leadenhall Street; by Oliver \u0026amp; Boyd, Edinburgh, 1817. 12mo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn early nineteenth-century single-volume account of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eboth of Mungo Park’s expeditions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e into the interior of West Africa, compiled by the Scottish missionary and traveller John Campbell from Park’s published writings and other contemporary sources.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePark’s first expedition of 1795–97, undertaken for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrican Association\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, established his reputation as one of the most celebrated European explorers of his generation. 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