Bøker av Sir John Hawkins

From the forests of Arctic Sweden to the streets of Rome and Paris. From the mountains of Alberta to the cantinas of Juarez, Mexico. From policing the streets of Toxteth to working security for a Hollywood celebrity. This is the story of a Scouser who, after growing up in Liverpool, set out on a quest to see if it was possible to live a life free of conventionality and daily routine and to try and find some answers along the way. Strap yourself in for a fast-paced adventure.

Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. This is an early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of Johnson's birth.

This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life.