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
Andreas Bummel work on a world parliament and in 2015 the Society for Threatened Peoples awarded him the association’s honorary membership. In 2018, he authored a major book on the history, relevance and implementation of a world parliament (with co-author Jo Leinen) titled "A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century". Andreas Bummel Andreas Bummel (*9. February 1976 in Cape Town) is co-founder and Director of Democracy Without Borders (formerly Committee for a Democratic U.N.) and of the international campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. From 1998 to 2008 he was coordinator for UN reform issues of the Society