no marker— to indicate that inside lay the remains of James Boswell, the passionate Scotsman who wrote one of the greatest books of all time, the Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Dr. Johnson ...

According to James Boswell, he would habitually ignore ... we must venture back to the very beginning of Samuel Johnson’s life. He came into the world on the 18th of September in the year ...

In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell ...