Three Men In A Boat, by Jerome K Jerome
In 1889, JKJ and two friends ("to say nothing of the dog"), suffering a mild hypochondria, decide it would be bracing to row up the Thames in a skiff, from Kingston to Oxford. This, then, is the very funny account of said trip (drawn from actual exploits on the river), as well as frequent side-tracking into whatever other topic occurs to him. The chapters are prefaced with teasers such as "I forget that I am steering", "George buys a banjo", "The steam launch - useful recipes for annoying and hindering it" or "Strange disappearance of Harris and a pie". It's a short book (only 169 pages) and a good read - I shall certainly look out for the sequel, Three Men on the Bummel (about a cycling tour in Germany), which I'd never heard of before.
posted by Izzy @ 9:23 am
1 Comments:
i fear that might be different sort of book altogether. if it isn't - it should be.
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