Three Men in a Boat 1891, "Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch" by Constance MacEwen was published. This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in "Three Men in a Boat" in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university. To take the place of Montmorency, they bring a cat called Tintoretto. Three Men in a Boat is referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, "The Ascent of Rum Doodle", where the head porter Bing is said to spend "much of his
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