<P> In 1891, Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch by Constance MacEwen was published . This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in Three Men in a Boat in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university . To take the place of Montmorency, they bring a cat called Tintoretto . </P> <P> Three Men in a Boat is referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, where the head porter Bing is said to spend "much of his leisure immersed in a Yogistani translation of it . In Have Space Suit--Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it . </P> <P> The book Three Men (Not) in a Boat: and Most of the Time Without a Dog (1983, republished 2011) by Timothy Finn is a loosely related novel about a walking trip . </P> <P> A re-creation in 1993 by poet Kim Taplin and companions resulted in the travelogue Three Women in a Boat . </P>

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