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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