Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson''s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell''s diary, published after Johnson''s death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), offers an intimate personal record of Johnson''s behavior and conversation during the trip.