Three Men in a Boat

...famous work, ''Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) ''. The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction...

In this article: Three Men on the Bummel, Germany, Jeremy Nicholas, River Thames, and A Tramp Abroad

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,...

In this article: Jerome K. Jerome, Dog, River Thames, Connie Willis, and To Say Nothing of the Dog

...from Limerick. I'm here, at the home of Munster Rugby, along with Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, filming another one of those Three Men in a Boat documentaries the Beeb get us to do to fulfil its quota for gentle comedy travelogues, the...

In this article: Ireland, Limerick, Tokyo, World Cup, JavaScript, and Griff Rhys Jones

...the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like Three Men in a Boat. ' As to the question that his hordes of devoted fans never tire of asking, 'Where...

In this article: Terry Pratchett, Alzheimer's, Discworld, Nation, Suicide, Unseen Academicals, The Colour of Magic, Brandy, and Medical advice

Other rivers famous in literature that are judged to be below standard are the Thames between Kingston and Oxford that appears in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and the Severn that inspired Spencer's Fairy Queen. Ralph Underhill,...

In this article: Winnie the Pooh, Tarka the Otter, Wind in the Willows, Thames, Britain, Christopher Robin, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and EU

...Palin: I've been anxious about everything I've ever done. I kept thinking 'Why me? Am I really up to the job?' Michael Palin in 1975's 'Three Men in a Boat' (with Stephen Moore, left, and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' star Tim Curry) Scenes...

In this article: Michael Palin, Monty Python, Ipswich, Terry Jones, John Cleese, DVD, Pineapple, and Jerome K Jerome

...history will reinforce Jones' image as a champion of our heritage, following his TV series Restoration, Why Poetry Matters, Mountain and Three Men In A Boat, and his brief stint as president of the now defunct Civic Trust England. But...

In this article: Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, Mountain, Michael Palin, Britain, and Cardiff

...becoming transformed. Yet British literature is already full of models for writing the river-run: from the comedic archetypes of, say, Three Men in a Boat; to rivers being in and out of time - Heart of Darkness makes the Thames, sullen in...

In this article: Thames, Jarvis Cocker, and Heavenly Records

"Three Men in a Boat" by Scorchamac, taken in Ullapool, Scotland, and added to our Flickr group. See the map. Our geo-tagged Flickr group has received some excellent photographs of the British summer so far... here's a selection of our...

In this article: Flickr, Ullapool, and Scotland

...said: "He's back home and everyone is fine." Rhys Jones, 55, is a keen sailor and owns a 45ft yacht named Undina. He has starred in two BBC documentaries with Rory McGrath and Mock The Week host Dara O'Briain based on Three Men in a Boat.

In this article: Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain, Rory McGrath, Galapagos Islands, South America, Quito, and Ecuador