【图书简介】 Book DescriptionA sparkling record of a tour through Scotland in the wake of Johnson and Boswell. From the PublisherWhat literary "doubles act" can ever equal that of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell? Well, two 20th-century English men-of-letters came close, with this witty and well-written account of their 1936 travels through Scotland in the two-hundred-year-old footsteps of The Great Cham and his biographer. First published in 1937 and never previously issued in paperback in America,Skye High is "a very brilliant study". (Harold Nicolson)Hesketh Pearson (1887-1964) and Hugh Kingsmill (1889-1949) were best-known as biographers. Pearson's life of the Reverend Sydney Smith, The Smith of Smiths, is also available in A Common Reader Edition.-读书网|DuShu.com
【作者简介】 Hesketh Pearson(1887-1964)and HUCH KINGSMILL(1889-1949)were best-known as biographers. Pearson’s life of the Reverend Sydney Smith, The smith of Smiths, is also available in A COMMON READER EDITION.
【本书目录】 INTRODUCTION THE JOURNEY PLANNED THE STREET FIGHT TEST IMMORTALITY SCOTLAND AND WHISKY SCOTTISH WARS OF INDEPENDENCE A SPPING DAY AT THE BRIDGE OF ALLAN HAZLITT AT STIRLING CASTLE ALONG THE CANONGATE HAZLITT IN EDINBURGH EVENING IN EDINBURGH THE ROUTE TO ST.ANDREWS ARE POETS BORN? ST.ANDREWS HAPPINESS THE ROUTE TO ABERDEEN THE GLORIES OF ABERDEEN THE TOP OF THE TAP GREY AND GREEN HOW TO YARROW SHAKESPEARE IN SCOTLAND PEARSON REBUKES JOHNSON ELGIN-ON-THE-SEA SPORTSMEN FINNAN HADDOCK MORE YARROWING INVERNESS ……