Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Théodore Rousseau, Johan Christian Dahl and Gustave Courbet. Three friends and a fox terrier take a boat up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford, and almost nothing happens with enormous consequence: a tin of pineapple and no opener, a towpath, a hamper, the maze at Hampton Court. Jerome meant it as a serious guide to the river and could not keep the jokes out; his editor cut most of the history and kept the rest. It has been continuously in print since 1889. A hundred marine and river paintings from 1740 to 1876, including work by Samuel Scott and John Cleveley the Elder, follow the same water the three men travel.
Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Théodore Rousseau, Johan Christian Dahl and Gustave Courbet. Three friends and a fox terrier take a boat up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford, and almost nothing happens with enormous consequence: a tin of pineapple and no opener, a towpath, ...