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Three Men in a Vessel was designed to be considered a serious travel guide. It failed dismally in this value but been successful in becoming an entertaining account of any boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men were predicated on the writer and two of his friends. The vacation was a typical boating holiday of its time, completed on what was known as a Thames camping skiff. Your dog, Montmorency, however, was completely fictional, but, as Jerome remarked, 'possessed a lot of me in it'. The book was denounced as 'vulgar' by the literary establishment, but it was greatly popular amongst the 'clerking classes' who yearned to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving that is every day becoming more and more the bane of 19th century life'. It has coined one of the great insurance quotes about the stresses of the present day working life - 'I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for time'. Such was the story's success that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycling tour in Europe, entitled Three Men on the Bummel. And perhaps the book's original purpose as a travel guide didn't fail completely; its effect was in a way that the number of registered Thames watercraft went up 50 percent in the entire year after its publication, and it contributed significantly to the Thames becoming the major traveler attraction which it now is. The journey along the Thames has been re-created often, most recently for British tv in 1975 by Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore and, in 2005, by comedians Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain, Rory McGrath and an extremely stressed dog called Loli.
