A humourous account of a holiday boating trip along the Thames River. Originally meant to be a serious travel guide, the comical elements overtake the sentimental passages to create a witty novel. Written in 1889, the witty humor is still relevant today. From The Observer: "On its publication in 1889, this rambling travelogue got sniffy reviews. The slang was vulgar, the characters common and the prose uneven. Though the criticisms can't be denied, neither can the warmth, humour or charm of Jerome K Jerome's book. And 120 years later with millions of copies sold worldwide, four film adaptations, three TV versions, stage adaptations and even the rather dubious achievement of inspiring a Razorlight music video, Three Men in a Boat has never been out of print and continues to find new fans today. The book was meant to be a serious travel guide recounting a river trip from Kingston to Oxford undertaken by three young men, but Jerome's rambling anecdotes and humorous take on travellers J, Harris and George - and J's feckless fox terrier, Montmorency - turned it into something far rarer: an honest account of male friendship. This pompous, hapless and touching trio are very familiar; in fact, reading this, it feels as if the only difference between modern and Victorian men is the latters' interest in pipe smoking. Jerome's narrative meanders through such wildly varied topics as hypochondria, tents, girls' uselessness in a boat, playing the bagpipes and making an Irish stew as hi