Skye High (Common Reader Editions)

WHAT LITERARY "DOUBLES CAT" CAN EVER EQUAL that of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell? Well, two Johnsonian(or is Boswelian?)English men-of-letters came close ,with this sparkling account of a 1936 tour through Scotland in the two-hundred-year-old footsteps of the Great Cham and his biographer.First published in 1937 and never reviosly issued in paperback in America ,Skye High is "a very brilliant study".(Harold Nicolson)

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.