Three Men in a Boat a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of "Three Men in a Boat", Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled "Three Men on the Bummel" (also known as "Three Men on Wheels", 1900). The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as "J."), and Jerome's dog, named Montmorency. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking
Three Men in a Boat leisure immersed in a Yogistani translation of it. In "Have Space Suit—Will Travel", by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it. The book "Three Men (Not) in a Boat: and Most of the Time Without a Dog" (1983, republished 2011) by Timothy Finn is a loosely related novel about a walking trip. A re-creation in 1993 by poet Kim Taplin and companions resulted in the travelogue "Three Women in a Boat". "Gita sul Tevere" is an Italian humorous book inspired by this famous