This is an auction for A WALK TO THE WESTERN ISLES (AFTER BOSWELL AND JOHNSON) by Frank Delaney.

"Entertaining, ironical, witty, high-spirited and appreciative."

• JOHN HILLABY

"I commend Delaney's lively account to anyone who loves reading about Boswell and Johnson's glorious expedition."

• PAUL JOHNSON in the Daily Mail

"Elegant and entertaining … the next best thing to the journey itself."

• IAN BELL in the Sunday Times (UK)

Amazon.com reviews:

"FIVE STARS!! I loved this book - it was great bedtime reading as it was so episodic. Past and present were juxtaposed as Delaney meanders across Scotland. The Skye bits were especially interesting as ancestors of mine came from there and so I gained insight into how they lived. Now going to read the original Dr Johnson!"

"A WALK TO THE WESTERN ISLES retraces Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's journey through Scotland and its Western Isles in the autumn of 1773. Frank Delaney's book is a walk in the company of these two men, telling in some part the history of Scotland in the 18th century and today, of the people of the Highlands and islands then and now, their history, their whisky distilleries, the Loch Ness monster, their literature and songs, their food and hospitality, their lochs and harbours and sea-sounds - all observed via a stream of anecdotes. Johnson's book "A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland" and Boswell's book "Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson" are compared throughout."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 1994.

308 pages + 24 pages of photographs.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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