First published in 1882, Three in Norway is the beloved comic travelogue that inspired Jerome K. Jerome’s classic Three Men in a Boat.
Price range: £7.99 through £24.99
Price range: £7.99 through £24.99
| Author |
Walter J. Clutterbuck |
|---|---|
| Imprint |
Read & Co. Travel |
| Categories |
Humour Special Interest Travel & Maps |
| ISBN | 9781445597256, 9781528775236, 9781447484271 |
| Formats Available | |
| Pages | 274 |
| Publication Date | 20 May 2010, 18 August 2026, 21 December 2012 |
| Weight | 322 kg |
| Dimensions | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
First published in 1882, Three in Norway is the beloved comic travelogue that inspired Jerome K. Jerome’s classic Three Men in a Boat.
Written by Walter J. Clutterbuck and James A. Lees, this quintessential piece of Victorian travel writing follows three young men as they leave civilisation behind to embark on an adventure in the Fjords of Norway. Well provisioned with tobacco and good spirits, what follows is a summer of camping, fishing, and hunting among the mountains, with each sport and scrape wittily detailed as their days unfold.
Classic travel writing at its best, Three in Norway is a warm and faithful account of the journey itself: the fishing, the mishaps, the weather, and the particular pleasure of three friends on an adventure. Complete with sixty charming illustrations by G. H. Ford, this edition presents an early and much-loved example of the comic travel diary. It is the work that inspired Jerome K. Jerome’s classic Three Men in a Boat, and is a brilliant read for anyone with the itch for a back-to-sticks adventure, as well as those content to make the journey from a comfortable chair.
“An exceedingly vivacious book.”—Daily News, 1882
“Nothing either forced or silly about the narrative, it boils over with genuine fun, until the reader feels not that the unnamed authors are making him laugh, but that he is simply laughing with them. He and they form a hilarious company with no nonsense about them.”—Philadelphia Inquirer, 1882
“There is not a dull page to be found in it.”—Daily Telegraph, 1882
An adventure classic that shaped the travel writing that followed, Three in Norway is a treasured companion for armchair travellers, lovers of British humour, and anyone planning an expedition of their own.
The first edition appeared in 1882 from the London house of Longmans, Green & Co., illustrated throughout with woodcuts of camp life, running rapids, and the reindeer country of the Jotunfjeld. Those original plates, accompanied by a folding colour map tracing the expedition’s route, recorded a corner of Norway that few British readers of the day had ever seen.
| Author |
Walter J. Clutterbuck |
|---|---|
| Imprint |
Read & Co. Travel |
| Categories |
Humour Special Interest Travel & Maps |
| ISBN | 9781445597256, 9781528775236, 9781447484271 |
| Formats Available | |
| Pages | 274 |
| Publication Date | 20 May 2010, 18 August 2026, 21 December 2012 |
| Weight | 322 kg |
| Dimensions | 5.5 × 8.5 in |
