Review Samuel Johnson. Viaje a las islas occidentales de Escocia. Ed. y tr. Agustín Coletes Blanco. Oviedo: KRK Ediciones, 2006

Abstract

One of the strangest pairings ever envisaged for a journey, a mixture of Tweedledum and Tweedledee with Quixote and Sancho thrown in, took place in the year 1773, when the 63 year-old Englishman Samuel Johnson, better known as Dr Johnson, and the 32 year-old Scotsman James Boswell set out on a journey across Scotland to the Western Islands.