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3) Much entertainment: a visual and culinary record of Johnson and Boswell's tour of Scotland in 1773
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue with a playful wit, an enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the boon and burden of American sensibility, and an ardent appreciation for Boswell and Johnson-who...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had begun at universities back home. Boswell's tour, however, was different: he was less concerned with the ruins of the past than the thinkers of the present. In particular, he...
