Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Note 1] published in 1889, 1] is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, 2] with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages...