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Boswell wrote this book based on the journal he kept during the trip with Johnson, providing his own account of their journey to the Hebrides.

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Boswell wrote up his travels in Corsica as a book which was published and became a great success, winning him the nickname 'Corsica Boswell.'

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Described as the greatest and most influential biography in the English language, and Tom Holland's personal desert island book, calling it 'incredibly entertaining' and like watching a 'fly on the wall documentary.'

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Boswell is mentioned as 'the biographer of Samuel Johnson' in the context of discussing his admiration for Corsica and Pasquale Paoli

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Described as containing 'one of my favorite passages' about how every man has his own technique for shaving