Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888.
Referenced by [Robert A. Heinlein][1] in [Have Spacesuit Will Travel][2] as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired [To Say Nothing of the Dog][3] by [Connie Willis][4].
[1]: openlibrary.org/authors/OL28641A/Robert_A._Heinlein [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL59727W/Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel [3]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14858398W/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_or_how_we_found_the_bishop's_bird_stump_at_last#about/about [4]: openlibrary.org/authors/OL20934A/Connie_Willis