Jerome K. Jerome

Some time after their eventful trip on the river, chronicled in "Three Men in a Boat", the same three men suffer a renewed attack of itchy feet and decide to take off on a "bummel". Their jaunt takes them away from the confines of domestic routine and, with a tandem and a bicycle, out to the Black Forest. The culture they encounter as they cycle...

With the co-operation of several hampers of food and an open boat, three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford....