Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

Treat yourself with humour and adventure: Well, as a group of friends, what would you probably do to get rid of some temporary problems? How does it sound to involve yourself into a new set of problems to get rid of the old ones? Well, that’s just what ‘Three men in a boat’ is like. The storyline: The book, ‘Three men in a Boat’ revolves around three friends, J, Harris and George. On one ordinary day, the three friends gather at J’s house and spend some time smoking and talking about the lows in life. That’s when they come up with the idea of taking a boat trip up the river Thames. They believed that this could be a retreat to all their problems and troubles. But little did they know what lay ahead! The book, ‘Three men in a Boat’ is a sure trip full of adventure and humour. As decided, the three friends along with a fox-terrier, start their voyage up and down the river Thames. As the story proceeds further, you find yourself caught into various pieces of vivid descriptions and innumerable anecdotes. The story takes a turn with every time there is a change in weather or something goes haphazardly wrong with the tow ropes. The book is a definite entertainer as it will fill you with ample classic British humour and a lot more. About the Author: Jerome K. Jerome is known for many popular books with a writing style which comes with humour. Born in England and having received education in a poor family, Jerome was highly inspired by his sister’s love for theatre. That’s where his journey in various occupations began. From an actor to a journalist to even a teacher, he finally received recognition in the field of writing with ‘On the Stage and Off’. His major influence for the book ‘Three Men in a Boat’ comes from his honeymoon which actually had taken place on the river Thames in a little boat. The book is available online for convenient shopping. You can bag this book from A today by following a few easy steps.

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Holidays are odd things. They derive from exhausting pilgrimage where sedentary, medieval folk would up-sticks and walk hundreds of miles on muddy tracks, in unsuitable clothing, at the mercy of thieves, brigands and weather, to reach a distant shrine. Equally, holidays also derive from peaceful rest cures at spas and seaside towns, where instead of getting foot sore you’re more likely to get foot massage. This contradictory ancestry ends up combining a long physical ordeal in search of spiritual meaning with the beach resort experience, reclining on a lounger, watching waves lap on smooth sand, cool drink in hand.

Both the pilgrimage and sun lounger aspects of holidays are explored in Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome’s nineteenth century account of a Thames boating trip. The nineteenth century was the time when holidays came into being for people generally. You no longer had to be religiously earnest, or be wealthy enough to sit around drinking mineral water in Bath or Tunbridge Wells. People were earning better money, had more free time and, thanks to the railways, could travel more easily. The three men who take Jerome’s boat trip are regular chaps. George works as a bank clerk. It’s not clear exactly what Harris and Jerome do, but you don’t get the sense that they are government ministers, captains of industry, or deep-thinking academics. They are the new holiday makers, embarking on a journey of ancient contradictions.

In many ways this boat trip is a spiritual pilgrimage, an attempt to leave behind the humdrum and find something more profound. Against a background of arduous effort and spartan living conditions, there are reflections on life and extravagant descriptions of nature in all its comforting, uplifting beauty. But the attempted profundities are always punctured by various down-to-earth mishaps involving ill-behaved dogs, poor boatmanship, bad cooking, vengeful steam launches, forgotten tin openers. While this journey might be seen as a kind of physically demanding pilgrimage, it is also an indolent escape from stress and strain. Each man takes it in turn to pull tricks to get out of rowing. Jerome avoids tours of churchyards containing historically significant graves. There is much lounging around in riverside meadows, and laughter at the memory of conscientious old school fellows who threw themselves into French irregular verbs.

So where does this physically demanding, yet languid – profound yet commonplace – journey take us? Without giving anything away about the “denouement”, it takes us somewhere significant, while allowing us to escape heavy significance. It takes us somewhere new, while also taking us home again with a new appreciation of our daily lives.