Jerome K. Jerome 
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel 

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ‚Three Men in a Boat, ‚ and ‚Three Men on the Bummel, ‚ a sequel to Three Men in a Boat. — ‚Three Men in a Boat, ‚ published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about ‚Three Men in a Boat‘ is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. — ‚Three Men on the Bummel‘ is a humorous novel was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, ‚Three Men in a Boat.‘ The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in ‚Three Men in a Boat, ‚ this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest.