carnivals. Jerome K. Jerome
immortalised the boating trip
in his 1889 book Three Men
in a Boat in which his
narrator sets off with two
friends and a dog to journey
upriver from Kingston. The
river is an escape, a landscape
and way of life ‘free from
that fretful haste, that
vehement striving’, and
bathing would form a big part
of the trip; ‘we all talked as if
we were going to have a long
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