![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the book does give some interesting insights into twentieth century life, describing the domestic set-up and the means by which the two married men (Harris and the author) persuaded their wives to let them go on their wanderings. One assumes the baggage was sent on by train but this is barely mentioned. Nor is there any description of the means the friends used to carry their luggage, and very little information of what they took with them. ![]() However, the routes taken and the journeys themselves are extremely vague and the ‘story’ mainly consists of a series of anecdotes, some humorous, others less so.ĭespite the fact that the men set off on two bicycles (one a tandem) this is not particularly a cycling book for instance, there is little description of the cycles themselves and certainly no technical information. It is, as the title suggests, a wander, this time through Germany, particularly the Black Forest region. Written at the end of the 1890s cycle craze driven by the invention of the safety bicycle, Three Men on the Bummel is a sequel to Jerome K Jerome’s better known classic Three Men in a Boat and follows the further adventures of the author and his two friends, George and Harris. ![]()
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