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‘A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland': A Londoner Out of His Element

Travel writing can be a tedious exercise in epiphanies, overstuffed with golden sunsets, balmy beaches and quaint locals graced by effortless charm. The perfections of paradise, it turns out, grow boring pretty quickly. 'Literature is made out of the misfortunes of others,' literary critic V.S. Pritchett once noted. 'A large number of travel books fail simply because of the intolerable, monotonous good luck of their authors.'