Summary of the Book
On a seemingly ordinary evening, J, Harris, and George, sitting in J’s room, smoking, talking, and generally feeling seedy, decide that a boat trip up the Thames is just the thing they need to make them snap out of their troublesome state.
Three Men In A Boat is the fictional account of this motley group, as they sail up and down the Thames. It’s a part-comic part-serious travelogue that’s full of anecdotes and vividly descriptive pieces on the places and the characters that the three men pass on their trip.
Though they set off with much enthusiasm, the three men could have hardly predicted the troubles that would follow them on this jaunt. From tow ropes that have a mind of their own, to weather that is unbelievably unreliable, pineapple tin cans that refuse to open, and the mysterious disappear-ance of Harris and a pie. This is classic British humour with its timelessness and endurability.