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The author of this essay discusses the relationship between two famous Scottish writers, Johnson and Boswell, and their trip to the Hebrides in 1773. The author argues that the trip was significant because it was one of the first times that travel writing was used to explore and document the culture and history of Scotland.
This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773. Locating the famous journey both within the context of travel writing in the decade of Cook's Pacific voyages, and in an intellectual, cultural, and literary context, Rogers explores the motives of both men in making the "Grand Detour" in the face of the anti-Scottish feeling of the period.
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