Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), Jerome K Jerome's accidental classic about messing about on the Thames remains a comic gem. A trio of hypochondriacs (Harris, George and Jerome) decides that a leisurely boat trip is just what their overworked bodies and brains need for a rest. Accompanied by the ever-mischievous dog Montmorency, they skull up the Thames from Kingston in Surrey as far as Oxford. The book is far more than a travelogue. It uses incidents from the journey (including