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Three Men In A Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
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Initially intended to be a serious travel guide, Three Men in a Boat is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the river Thames. Three men, complaining of "overwork" agree to go on a boating holiday together. After a rocky start involving the bribing of a railway driver, the three men (and a dog) cast off for adventure. Amusing anecdotes of camping and cooking mishaps are interspersed with descriptions of landmarks, pubs, and villages along the way. Hugely successful, the book spawned a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels, 1900).
Publisher: Dreamscape MediaReleased: Sep 26, 2017ISBN: 9781974995356Format: book
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Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.—Useful prescriptions.—Cure for liver complaint in children.—We agree that we are overworked, and need rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the River.—Montmorency lodges an objection.—Original motion carried by majority of three to one.
There were four of us—George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were—bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch—hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into—some fearful, devastating scourge, I know—and, before I had glanced half down the list of premonitory symptoms, it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever—read the symptoms—discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it—wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance—found, as I expected, that I had that too,—began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically—read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to walk the hospitals, if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now. What a doctor wants, I said, is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each. So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
Well, what's the matter with you?
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. I have not got housemaid's knee. Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I have got."
And I told him how I came to discover it all.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it—a cowardly thing to do, I call it—and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it. I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back.
He said he didn't keep it.
You are a chemist?
I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, I might be able to oblige you. Being only a chemist hampers me.
I read the prescription. It ran:
"1 lb. beefsteak, with
1 pt. bitter beer
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand."
I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.
In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being a general disinclination to work of any kind.
What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.
Why, you skulking little devil, you, they would say, get up and do something for your living, can't you? —not knowing, of course, that I was ill.
And they didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head. And, strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me—for the time being. I have known one clump on the head have more effect upon my liver, and make me feel more anxious to go straight away then and there, and do what was wanted to be done, without further loss of time, than a whole box of pills does now.
You know, it often is so—those simple, old-fashioned remedies are sometimes more efficacious than all the dispensary stuff.
We sat there for half-an-hour, describing to each other our maladies. I explained to George and William Harris how I felt when I got up in the morning, and William Harris told us how he felt when he went to bed; and George stood on the hearth-rug, and gave us a clever and powerful piece of acting, illustrative of how he felt in the night.
George fancies he is ill; but there's never anything really the matter with him, you know.
At this point, Mrs. Poppets knocked at the door to know if we were ready for supper. We smiled sadly at one another, and said we supposed we had better try to swallow a bit. Harris said a little something in one's stomach often kept the disease in check; and Mrs. Poppets brought the tray in, and we drew up to the table, and toyed with a little steak and onions, and some rhubarb tart.
I must have been very weak at the time; because I know, after the first half-hour or so, I seemed to take no interest whatever in my food—an unusual thing for me—and I didn't want any cheese.
This duty done, we refilled our glasses, lit our pipes, and resumed the discussion upon our state of health. What it was that was actually the matter with us, we none of us could be sure of; but the unanimous opinion was that it—whatever it was—had been brought on by overwork.
What we want is rest, said Harris.
Rest and a complete change, said George. The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium.
George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family-physicianary way of putting things.
I agreed with George, and suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes—some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world—some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.
Harris said he thought it would be humpy. He said he knew the sort of place I meant; where everybody went to bed at eight o'clock, and you couldn't get a Referee for love or money, and had to walk ten miles to get your baccy.
No, said Harris, if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip.
I objected to the sea trip strongly. A sea trip does you good when you are going to have a couple of months of it, but, for a week, it is wicked.
You start on Monday with the idea implanted in your bosom that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one. On Tuesday, you wish you hadn't come. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, you wish you were dead. On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now. On Sunday, you begin to walk about again, and take solid food. And on Monday morning, as, with your bag and umbrella in your hand, you stand by the gunwale, waiting to step ashore, you begin to thoroughly like it.
I remember my brother-in-law going for a short sea trip once, for the benefit of his health. He took a return berth from London to Liverpool; and when he got to Liverpool, the only thing he was anxious about was to sell that return ticket.
It was offered round the town at a tremendous reduction, so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteenpence to a bilious-looking youth who had just been advised by his medical men to go to the sea-side, and take exercise.
Sea-side! said my brother-in-law, pressing the ticket affectionately into his hand; why, you'll have enough to last you a lifetime; and as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
He himself—my brother-in-law—came back by train. He said the North-Western Railway was healthy enough for him.
Another fellow I knew went for a week's voyage round the coast, and, before they started, the steward came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or arrange beforehand for the whole series.
The steward recommended the latter course, as it would come so much cheaper. He said they would do him for the whole week at two pounds five. He said for breakfast there would be fish, followed by a grill. Lunch was at one, and consisted of four courses. Dinner at six—soup, fish, entree, joint, poultry, salad, sweets, cheese, and dessert. And a light meat supper at ten.
My friend thought he would close on the two-pound-five job (he is a hearty eater), and did so.
Lunch came just as they were off Sheerness. He didn't feel so hungry as he thought he should, and so contented himself with a bit of boiled beef, and some strawberries and cream. He pondered a good deal during the afternoon, and at one time it seemed to him that he had been eating nothing but boiled beef for weeks, and at other times it seemed that he must have been living on strawberries and cream for years.
Neither the beef nor the strawberries and cream seemed happy, either—seemed discontented like.
At six, they came and told him dinner was ready. The announcement aroused no enthusiasm within him, but he felt that there was some of that two-pound-five to be worked off, and he held on to ropes and things and went down. A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:
What can I get you, sir?
Get me out of this, was the feeble reply.
And they ran him up quick, and propped him up, over to leeward, and left him.
For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain's biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water; but, towards Saturday, he got uppish, and went in for weak tea and dry toast, and on Monday he was gorging himself on chicken broth. He left the ship on Tuesday, and as it steamed away from the landing-stage he gazed after it regretfully.
There she goes, he said, there she goes, with two pounds' worth of food on board that belongs to me, and that I haven't had.
He said that if they had given him another day he thought he could have put it straight.
So I set my face against the sea trip. Not, as I explained, upon my own account. I was never queer. But I was afraid for George. George said he should be all right, and would rather like it, but he would advise Harris and me not to think of it, as he felt sure we should both be ill. Harris said that, to himself, it was always a mystery how people managed to get sick at sea—said he thought people must do it on purpose, from affectation—said he had often wished to be, but had never been able.
Then he told us anecdotes of how he had gone across the Channel when it was so rough that the passengers had to be tied into their berths, and he and the captain were the only two living souls on board who were not ill. Sometimes it was he and the second mate who were not ill; but it was generally he and one other man. If not he and another man, then it was he by himself.
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick—on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.
If most men were like a fellow I saw on the Yarmouth boat one day, I could account for the seeming enigma easily enough. It was just off Southend Pier, I recollect, and he was leaning out through one of the port-holes in a very dangerous position. I went up to him to try and save him.
Hi! come further in, I said, shaking him by the shoulder. You'll be overboard.
Oh my! I wish I was, was the only answer I could get; and there I had to leave him.
Three weeks afterwards, I met him in the coffee-room of a Bath hotel, talking about his voyages, and explaining, with enthusiasm, how he loved the sea.
Good sailor! he replied in answer to a mild young man's envious query; "well, I did feel a little queer once, I confess. It was off Cape Horn. The vessel was wrecked the next morning."
Weren't you a little shaky by Southend Pier one day, and wanted to be thrown overboard?
Southend Pier! he replied, with a puzzled expression.
Yes; going down to Yarmouth, last Friday three weeks.
Oh, ah—yes, he answered, brightening up; "I remember now. I did have a headache that afternoon. It was the pickles, you know. They were the most disgraceful pickles I ever tasted in a respectable boat. Did you have any?"
For myself, I have discovered an excellent preventive against sea-sickness, in balancing myself. You stand in the centre of the deck, and, as the ship heaves and pitches, you move your body about, so as to keep it always straight. When the front of the ship rises, you lean forward, till the deck almost touches your nose; and when its back end gets up, you lean backwards. This is all very well for an hour or two; but you can't balance yourself for a week.
George said:
Let's go up the river.
He said we should have fresh air, exercise and quiet; the constant change of scene would occupy our minds (including what there was of Harris's); and the hard work would give us a good appetite, and make us sleep well.
Harris said he didn't think George ought to do anything that would have a tendency to make him sleepier than he always was, as it might be dangerous. He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that
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datrappertGo to datrappert's profile
This is a gentle, fitfully humorous book about three men and a dog taking a boat trip up the Thames from London (and back). It is full of humorous digressions, a couple of which will make you chuckle a bit. Mostly, however, these episodes just serve to show that human nature hasn't changed since 1889 when this was written. There are also poetic passages extolling the landscape as well as factual passages about particular places. I found myself turning to the Internet again and again to look things up--and it doesn't appear much has changed. You could, in fact, still use this as a travel guide for such a journey. And despite the mishaps portrayed, you'll want to go.
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Light, amusing and occasionally brilliantly written (I'm a sucker for alliteration). Full of digressions, each of which is just about precisely the right length. > I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. … But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.> We had just commenced the third course—the bread and jam—when a gentleman in shirtsleeves and a short pipe came along, and wanted to know if we knew that we were trespassing. We said we hadn't given the matter sufficient consideration as yet to enable us to arrive at a definite conclusion on that point, but that, if he assured us on his word as a gentleman that we were trespassing, we would, without further hesitation, believe it. He gave us the required assurance, and we thanked him, but he still hung about, and seemed to be dissatisfied, so we asked him if there was anything further that we could do for him; and Harris, who is of a chummy disposition, offered him a bit of bread and jam.…> It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. I shall have to throw out a wing soon. And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a fingermark on it.> The river—with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing shadows o'er the shallows, flinging diamonds from the mill-wheels, throwing kisses to the lilies, wantoning with the weirs' white waters, silvering moss-grown walls and bridges, brightening every tiny townlet, making sweet each lane and meadow, lying tangled in the rushes, peeping, laughing, from each inlet, gleaming gay on many a far sail, making soft the air with glory—is a golden fairy stream.> But the river—chill and weary, with the ceaseless raindrops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with a sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber; while the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin; silent ghosts with eyes reproachful, like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected—is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets.
mrslee_1Go to mrslee_1's profile
There are loads of reviews on this work, so this is only to say, I loved this book. It is one I will be seeking in hardcover so that I may read it again. I had the ebook version, and although the story was still wonderful, the illustrations were tiny. I need to hold this book, flip the pages back and forth, reread passages, underline some of them and make notes in the margins. I want to have a relationship with it and I can't do that with an ebook. There are not many books I feel that way about.This one had me laughing out-loud frequently. Not hysterical laughing, but amused laughing. Much of it felt modern, but certain passages made the reader aware of the times the book was written in. I took my time reading this, because I wanted to appreciate it. It is farce, comedy, poetic, philosophical, and retrospective. Good, clean fun. The only thing which could make it better for me, is if I had been on a boating trip on the Thames, but the author describes it in such a way, that I feel I have been.
mickyfineGo to mickyfine's profile
The classic tale of three young men who decide to take a respite from their lives and spend two weeks rowing up the river Thames.I knew this was a comic novel but I wasn't quite prepared for just how often this book would have me laughing out loud. The many asides our narrator gives on his previous boating experiences, the locales that surround him, and the adventures that he and his two friends as well as his dog get up to had me giggling loudly both at home and in public. Probably best read if you've had some other experience with Victorian literature but highly recommended if you haven't picked this one up already.
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Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) recounts a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back again. The story focuses on George, Harris, Jerome, and Jerome's dog, Montmorency, as they plan the trip and recount past stories in the course of their adventures. Jerome humorously muses on the nature of cheese, the habit of visiting tombs in picturesque villages, historical Thames islands like Magna Charta Island, their visitors such as Kings John and Henry VIII, the nature of Victorian-era flirting, the relationships of dogs, the methods of rowing, fish stories, and more. Though some of the situations Jerome describes are uniquely nineteenth-century, the wit of his writing will entertain readers over a hundred years later. This Folio Society edition reprints the original 1889 text with illustrations from Paul Cox that capture the humor of Jerome's text.
Mild fun up the Thames. This book was originally commissioned as a travelogue but it does seem to have hung on remarkably well. It takes about two hours to read, but it is best taken in small bites. It was originally copyright in 1889.
liivinGo to liivin's profile
Timeless humor. Very easy to read.
sasham-1Go to sasham-1's profile
Light funny and entertaining as well as giving you a history lesson as J and friends travel up the thames. I now want to get a fox terrier :-)
solitaryfossilGo to solitaryfossil's profile
What a complete little gem this is! A quick read, only 100 pages, but I laughed from beginning to end. I was needing something funny to read, and this quickie really worked. Recommended!
cdeukerGo to cdeuker's profile
I definite "fight the blues" book. Lots of great British humor. The oddest thing about the book is that--while poking fun at nature writing--JKJ simultaneously writes some beautiful descriptions of nature. Also little odd bits that give the book a quirky personality. Sections on the Magna Carta (!) and on the discovery of a dead body (femaie, fallen woman, deserted by family and friends) don't fit in any traditional way, but they work nonetheless. Perhaps JKJ, while telling us not to take ourselves too seriously, is also telling us not to take ourselves too lightly, either. I recommend this.
markalanlaidlawGo to markalanlaidlaw's profile
gentle witty book, should be on the regular re read rotunda.
meredy_1Go to meredy_1's profile
After two long, heavy reads, I took a very light digression with Three Men in a Boat. It's a stylish but largely frivolous and frequently slapstick 19th-century travelogue covering about a 50-mile stretch of the River Thames from Kingston to Oxford. I'd call it amusing but by no means hilarious and can't really see how this book acquired its reputation.
bookconciergeGo to bookconcierge's profile
Three friends decide to spend a fortnight going up the Thames in a skiff - even if it kills them, which it just may do. Their misadventures are humorously recalled in this "travelogue" which has withstood the test of time. There are some laugh-out-loud moments, but it's slow going in places. Made me really sympathize with their struggles to row (or tow) UP stream. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for this very British memoir that was first published in 1889. Glad I finally read it, but I won't be raving about it.
quibeeGo to quibee's profile
This is a reread of a book I haven't read in a very long time and I found that I still enjoyed it.
It is only partially about three men in a boat. It's often just an excuse of the author to go off on tangents and tell stories and anecdotes about things that have happened to him, his friends and his relations.
jwhenderson_1Go to jwhenderson_1's profile
Jerome K. Jerome wrote a leisurely chronicle of a summer's boating holiday on the Thames. It was published in 1889 when he was only thirty years old. It was a success as a popular humorous book and has remained in print to this day. While some of the book is pure farce his main approach to humor was understatement and outrageous exaggeration in a style that reminds one of some of Twain's comic writings. He described his technique thus:"Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing: but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous---almost pedantic---veracity, that the experienced angler is seen."His humor relies on the diabolic malice of inanimate objects when they escape from civilization: of the infrangibility of cans when the can opener has been left behind, the ingenuity of an untended rope, the cunning of kettles and leaking kerosene. His narrator is known simply as J. while his companions are Harris and George (though they are somewhat shadowy characters) and of course there is Montmorency, the dog."To look at Montmorency you would imagine that he was an angel sent upon the earth, for some reason withheld from mankind, in the shape of a small fox-terrier. There is a sort of Oh-what-a-wicked-world-this-is-and-how-I-wish-I-could-do-something-to-make-it-better-and -nobler expression about Montmorency that has been known to bring tears into the eyes of pious old ladies and gentlemen."With a convivial narrator and two friends, to say nothing of the dog, this tale of a boat trip is simply one of the funniest and most delightful short books that I have ever read.
altheaannGo to altheaann's profile
Since this book was an influence on Connie Willis' fabulous and funny novel, I figured I should read it and see what she was getting at.
It's a short, comic Victorian novel. The humor is based on the fact that none of the events of the book are of any importance whatsoever, but that the narrator makes every little thing out to be practically an incident from a heroic epic.
It's very short, and it is funny - but I think it's good that it's short, because I don't think that it could have been sustained much longer.
(Willis is funnier.)
deltaqueen50Go to deltaqueen50's profile
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1889, and is a humorous account of a boating trip taken on the Thames over a two week period and although it was published more than 100 years ago, the humor remains fresh today. The three men, Jerome and his friends Harris and George, accompanied by Montmorency, a fox terrier, embark upon their boat trip in order to cure themselves of various fancied ills. As they travel along, the author mentions all the villages that they pass and I found myself looking up these places on a map and checking the computer for pictures of the area. But the travelogue part of the book is definitely overshadowed by the humor and musings on life. Through his random anecdotes, the reader gets a clear (and funny) idea of what life was like for the author in the late 1880's. With dry wit and sarcastic humor, excellent character sketches and a dog that one can't help but fall in love with, Three Men In A Boat was a great read.
valzi-1Go to valzi-1's profile
Fun, funny, and short! The claims that the book has too much purple prose is true.
dlmorreseGo to dlmorrese's profile
This story relates the mild misadventures of three middle class men who have decided to spend a fortnight boating on the Thames. The book has no heroes or villains. It is not 'action packed.' There is no explicit sex or violence (although they do find a dead girl at one point, but she's just floating by minding her own business, and her appearance does not delay them long).
You can think of it as a Victorian English travelogue with commentary about the places they pass and the things they observe along the way. I found it delightful. It is witty, lighthearted, and simply pleasure to relax with for a quiet evening's read.
I highly recommend it.
craso_3Go to craso_3's profile
A humorous series of anecdotes on human nature strung together within the framework of a story about three men, to say nothing of the dog, taking a boating trip.This novel wasn't what I expected. I thought it would have the normal dialog and narrative structure of a modern novel. Instead, the author interrupts the story to tell hilarious tales about each situation. This threw me off in the beginning but I became used to it as I read. The book was written in 1889, but since the humor is about human foibles we can relate to it even today.
sharlene_wGo to sharlene_w's profile
I enjoyed listening to this short (3 cd) book on audio. A pleasant, old-fashioned story of the misadventures of three men and a dog on a boat trip on the Thames.
wrichard_22Go to wrichard_22's profile
The funniest travel book you could find
phoebesmumGo to phoebesmum's profile
A much-loved and often reread classic. It's one of the books that everyone – yes, everyone, you too – should read before they die.
ashishg_50Go to ashishg_50's profile
If you'd imagined Victorian era classic would be un-relatable to reader of 21st century, you'd be very wrong. Three Men in a Boat is immensely funny, laugh out loud humourous book of three extremely lazy and good for nothing men's journey along the river. Narrative is characterized by expansive digressions which feel all too familiar. It's salute to author's writing (not at all difficult to read) or human nature, that what was funny 100 years ago is still the same today. Recommended read among humour books.
judithproctorGo to judithproctor's profile
Still as funny as when I first read it 25 years ago. One of very few books that genuinely makes me laugh out loud.
thedivineoombaGo to thedivineoomba's profile
A lovely little rambling story about a trip three friends took down the Thames in a boat... You find out about the authors views on Steamboats (Both For and Against, depending on situation), his view of how work is divided up, and all sort of other things that is works well in today's world. Interspersed between the witty insights of human nature, there is a less enjoyable description of the towns and land that Jerome K. Jerome is boating through. These tend to be rather annoying. If the book didn't include these, it would be a 4.5 star book.My one big complaint is the description of the boat... being from the Land of 1000 lakes, I really couldn't visualize it, even after Googling it :) Since a portion of the book describes the process of pulling, towing, and sailing this boat, I was a bit lost.
benjclarkGo to benjclark's profile
You haven't read this yet? Do it. Witty, funny, very enjoyable. If you're a fan of British humor (or humour), you'll enjoy this book.
esquetee_1Go to esquetee_1's profile
Read this a long, long time ago and decided to read it again before revisiting the Connie Willis classic _To Say Nothing of the Dog _. Using an ebook version in the iPad Kindle app.
csaavedra_894108Go to csaavedra_894108's profile
Either my English is not good enough or you ought to be British to understand the humor in this book, but I can't see why it is such a classic. Besides a few good stories that made me laugh and some beautifully written paragraphs, I didn't find this book to be up to its fame. I'll probably have a hard time starting "Three Men on the Bummel" after this disappointment.
raizel_1Go to raizel_1's profile
I didn't enjoy this as much as P.G. Wodehouse, one of my favorite authors. But in the midst of the silliness there is a transcendent moment in the night when the narrator realizes that "Pain and Sorrow are but the angels of God." (p. 107) He concludes the chapter with a story about a knight lost in a woods and his experience there. Later in the book, they find the body of a woman who had drowned herself. He tells her story, as he later learned it, poignantly and with great sympathy for the woman's plight. (p. 181-183)


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Targeted To Teens, A German Play About ISIS Stokes Fear, Teaching Opportunities
By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
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Jurgen Todenhoefer in 2014
The audience squirms as the actors put on skull caps and fake beards and shout about how great it is to be a German Muslim. They call for jihad, initially as a way to self-reflect and later, as a battle cry.
The actors ask, "How can you sit here in comfort when our brothers and sisters in Syria and Iraq are being slaughtered? What does your conscience say? Do you even have a conscience?"
Inside IS,it's called, is a play for German teens about the so-called Islamic State was featured recently at Grips Theater, the largest youth theater in Berlin.
Teacher Sebastian Herdler, who is here with his class from a largely Muslim neighborhood in Berlin, says the in-your-face approach led him to check on some students who he worried might walk out.
"I told one of them sitting behind me, 'Listen, this is only a play, give it a chance. They aren't trying to make Islam look bad, so stay calm,' " Herdler says, as translated by NPR.
Maligning Islam is definitely not the point, says director Yüksel Yolcu. The German-Muslim director wants the play he wrote to spark discussion, and to expose vulnerabilities that extremists prey on.
He calls it a teaching tool to give young people who've grown up here in Germany insight into the radicalization process. The play also dramatizes a book by Munich journalist Juergen Todenhoefer, who spent 10 days in ISIS-controlled parts of Syria and Iraq.
He also introduces a fictitious German teen named Fabian, who's criticized by a mainstream Muslim preacher character for believing in ISIS.
Fabian explains: I was in Syria on the day I was supposed to become a martyr. He adds before he can carry out his mission, a bullet strikes him in the heart, killing him.
Fabian's fictional path to ISIS is linked to his parent's divorce, his loneliness in school and the break-up with his girlfriend after she gets an abortion. He eventually finds happiness when he converts to Islam, but later becomes radicalized and turns to violence.
Seventeen-year-old Fynn Guischard says he couldn't relate to Fabian.
Guischard says he knows people who convert, so that's no big deal. But to say I will kill for my religion or die for my religion, that's something else.
Another student, a Muslim teen who asked I not name him, said the play did a good job differentiating between mainstream and radical Islam.
But Thorsten Schmitz, a correspondent for Suddeutsche Zeitung, criticized the play as superficial.
He points to one scene in particular: Three German converts tell a newcomer about how great life is for women in the Islamic State.
Schmitz says he found it potentially dangerous for young viewers.
"I mean a director of a play can of course stage such a scene, but then there needs to be another scene that contradicts what they say, so in order for you to think and to reflect," he says.
The teacher, Sebastian Herdler, however, says he had no regrets bringing his students to see the play.
He says more Germans need to see how shutting people out can drive them into the arms of groups like ISIS.
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Special correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is based in Berlin. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and read at NPR.org. From 2012 until 2018 Nelson was NPR's bureau chief in Berlin. She won the ICFJ 2017 Excellence in International Reporting Award for her work in Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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Top 16 Active Oil Companies in Alaska
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This post contains the list of top oil companies in Alaska. Alaska also is known as "The Last Frontier" and the largest industry is the Oil and gas industry which is also the largest component of the state's economy. About 85 percent of Alaska's state budget is supplied by oil revenues.
Oil was first discovered in Alaska in Prudhoe Bay on the arctic in the year 1968 and pipeline construction commenced in 1974 but was completed in 1977.
There are lots of oil and gas companies in Alaska and in this post, you're about to know the top oil and gas companies in Alaska.
Top Oil & Gas Companies in Alaska
1. BlueCrest Energy Inc.
2. ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc.
3. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
4. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc
5. ExxonMobil
6. Furie Operating Alaska LLC
7. Eni
8. Glacier Oil & Gas Corporation
9. Hilcorp
10. Petro Star Inc
11. Chevron Corporation
12. Shoreside Petroleum Inc
13. Northstar Alaska
14. Doyon Drilling Inc (DDI)
15. Repsol
16. Marathon Petroleum Corporation
BlueCrest Energy is a privately-owned company that focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas resources in Alaska, and other states in the United States. Its main focus is the development of the Cosmopolitan oil & gas assets within Alaska's Cook Inlet basin.
This company owns 100% of the Cosmopolitan project which is one of the undeveloped fields in the Cook Inlet basin and the development of the field's oil reserves is currently been carried out using advanced extended-reach drilling techonolgy to access the offshore oil reserves from an onshore drill site.
The office is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it is one of the biggest oil and gas companies in Alaska.
ConocoPhillips is arguably the largest oil & gas producer and the largest owner of exploration leases in Alaska. For over 50 years, this company and its heritage companies have been a leader in oil and gas exploration and also responsible for the development in the state by creating economic opportunities in Alaska.
ConocoPhilips's primary operated assets are the Kuparuk and Alpine fields on the North Slope. It also have keen interest in the Prudhoe Bay field and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. By expanding its Alpine field across a channel of the Colville River, its drill site CD5 became the first commercial oil development on Alaska Native lands within the boundaries of the National Petroleum interests in the NPR-A, and other undeveloped acreage on the North Slope.
This company has drilled more than 60 exploration wells since 2000, including over 20 in NPR-A. They also hold 1.2 million acres in state and federal exploration leases. They further aim at developing its oil and gas fields and also explore new ones.
This company was incorporated in 1970 to design, build, operate, and maintain the pipeline, pump stations and the Valdez Marine Terminal. The pipeline itself runs about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and it is the largest privately financed construction project in history.
Since the completion of the pipeline in 1977, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) has successfully transported over 17 billion barrels of crude oil from North Slope, Alaska.
BP started working in Alaska in 1959, began drilling at the massive Prudhoe Bay oil field in 1968, and also helped to build the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in the mid- 1970s. BP operates the whole of Greater Prudhoe Bay area, which consists of the Prudhoe Bay field and various smaller fields.
The greater Prudhoe Bay are produces about 55% of the state's oil and gas and in 2015, BP averaged 281,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
This company owns interest in seven other North Slope oil fields. They began production in Prudhoe Bay in 1977, since then has generated over 12 billion barrels of oil, which still remains, one of the largest oil fields in North America.
This company explores for oil and natural gas, operates facilities, and markets products all over the world. They've been in Alaska for over 90 years and are among the top producers of oil and the largest holder of discovered gas resources on Alaska's North Slope.
It is the operator of the Point Thomson Unit located 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay. Also, this company has working interests in Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk, and Endicott fields on Alaska's North Slope.
In 2015, ExxonMobil average produced about 95, 000 barrels of oil equivalent each day.
Furie Operating Alaska LLC is a privately-owned exploration and production company that focuses on the development of oil and gas resources within the Cook Inlet region of Alaska. Furie is the chosen operator for the Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company LLC that controls the offshore Kitchen Light Unit surrounding more than 83,000 acres.
In 2010, Cornucopia and Furie Operating Alaska LLC acquired the Kitchen Lights Unit from the Escopeta Oil Company LLC.
They drilled the first offshore well in Kitchen Lights Units in August 2011 using a jack-up drilling rig. Four years later they installed the first offshore platform processing facility in Nikiski.
Furie delivered its first gas to the Cook Inlet market on November 14, 2015. This company is committed to supplying the south-central Alaskan consumers with certainty on natural gas supplies for years to come.
Eni is an Italian oil company with a global presence and also one of the world's oil and gas super-players operating in more than 70 countries worldwide and has over 30,000 employees. Since 2005, this oil company has been exploring and developing the oil field in Alaska and also has a leasehold interest in both onshore and offshore Alaska and the Beaufort sea area.
It owns 100 percent working interest and is the chosen Operator of the Nikaitchuq Field located on-offshore in the North Slope of Alaska. Eni also has a 70 percent working interest in the Oooguruk field in Alaska.
Glacier Oil & Gas work to explore and develop oil and gas resources for the benefit of the communities they serve, its employees, and Alaska as a whole. This company operates the oil assets in the Redoubt and W.MacArthur River Unit in the Cook Inlet on the Kenai Peninsula. They also drills produces, and transport infrastructure associated with these fields.
Glacier Oil & Gas Corporation works with community stakeholders, contracting partners, and the state of Alaska and strives to develop these oil and gas resources in a safe, compliant, efficient, and effective manner.
Hilcorp is one of the privately-owned oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the USA. It was founded in 1989 and headquartered in Houston, Texas. This company has about 2,000 employees and 11 operating areas including the Gulf Coast region, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska's Cook Inlet, and the Rockies.
Hilcorp strives to achieve its vision via continuous improvement daily in safety, environmental protection and production.
This company was incorporated in 1984 and is the only locally-owned refining and fuel marketing company in Alaska. Petro Star maintains fuel sales groups in seven communities in Alaska i.e. Anchorage, Fairbanks, Valdez, North Pole, Kodiak, Unalaska, and St. Paul and refineries in the North Pole and Valdez.
Its two refineries draw crude supply from Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to produce off-road and marine diesel, commercial and military jet fuel, as well as home heating oil.
This is one of the global leading integrated energy companies with subsidiaries that conducts business around the world.
Chevron began selling retail products in Alaska since 1888 and it was instrumental in developing Alaska's Cook Inlet during early statehood. Today, this global and well-recognized company has joint venture interest on Alaska's North Slope.
An Alaskan-owned oil company that offers a variety of petroleum products and services to clients in Southcentral Alaska. Has locations in Wasilla, Seward, Cordova, Whittier, and headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska.
Northstar Alaska was founded in 1999 and is a 100% Alaskan-owned Company. It provides fuel procurement, distribution, and other related services in Western Alaska. Northstar Alaska recently experienced enormous growth and expanded its retail operations to include groceries, electronics, and other items.
Its mission is to work with other Alaskan-owned companies in order to increase value by providing competitive products and services for the benefits of their customers.
This company operates on the North Slope of Alaska with about eight of the most unique oil & gas land drilling rigs designed to drill oil wells in extreme conditions.
Doyon Drilling Inc was established in 1982 as a joint venture between Doyon Limited (an Alaska Native regional corporation) and Nugget Alaska Inc and in 1993, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Doyon, Limited.
This company has more than 300 employees and headquartered in Anchorage, AK.
Repsol is a renowned global energy company present throughout the energy value chain including exploration, production, refining, trading, chemicals, retail sales, and new energy. Repsol has over 25, 000 employees and its products are sold in more than 90 countries, reaching about 10 million customers.
The company produces more than 700,000 barrels of oil equivalent each day and has one of the most efficient refining systems in Europe.
It holds and interest in about 750,000 acres in Alaska where it has been actively exploring the North Slope since 2011. This company also holds a 49 percent working interest in the Pikka Unit, 49 percent in the Horsehoe discovery, and other interest in various exploration acreage in the state.
This is a petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay Ohio. It has a refinery in Nikiski, Alaska, and other refineries in Utah, North Dakota, California, Washington, and Hawaii.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation also owns and operates more than 380 retail stores close to those refineries including 31 in Alaska. The Alaska refinery in Nikiski produces diesel, jet fuel, propane, gasoline, asphalt, and heavy oils.
Listed above are the top oil companies in Alaska, These companies are also major employers in the state that provides lots of work opportunities for Alaskans.
If there's any other top Oil & Gas Company in Alaska you know that is not on this list, kindly drop it as a comment in the comment section.
Who are the major operators in the Prudhoe Bay Oil field in Alaska?
The major operators are BP, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil.
How much do oil rig workers make in the state of Alaska?
The average oil rig worker salary as of April 2020, is $54,890 but the salary range usually falls between $46,945 and $66,903
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– Drill Operators
– Gas Plant Operators
– Well Testers
– Chemical Engineers
– Petroleum Engineers
– Geologists
– Rig Manager
– Drilling Consultant
– Completion Driller
– Foreman/Supervisors
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As part of the Dizzy Emu Publishing screenplay contest, one of Mark's scripts, called Mr. Time, has been published on Amazon!
Mr. Time is a short screenplay about a university student who carries out an online social media experiment to find evidence of Time Travellers. Her investigation leads to a friendly old gentleman who confesses he travels though time. He does so via a wormhole he discovered under his kitchen sink and invites her to try it out for herself. Travelling back to the year 1928 she meets her idol, Charlie Chaplin, but events take a perilous turn when she takes a picture of him with her smartphone and the timeline takes steps to protect itself.
The competition rules stipulate all screenplays will be sold at the same fixed price for the first three months. A kindle edition can be purchased here, while a paperback edition can be found here.
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Do you wear Flip Flop or Sandals in the winter? - From your tires point of view, winter starts at 45 ° F.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – December 15, 2011… Like flip flops and sandals, summer and all-season tires are not the best in winter weather, especially if walking / driving on icy and snow packed roads. In contrast, boots and Cold weather tires have treads with more biting edges for better grip on snow and ice, while their softer compound remains flexible even in extremely low temperatures using specialized rubber compounds and tread designs to handle the cold temperatures.
Drivers that regularly encounter ice, unplowed snow, or slush, will need Cold weather tires (also known as "snow tires") that will give that extra traction, braking and handling needed to confidently drive on snow and ice. Tests conducted on ice show that even at 15mph, vehicles equipped with cold weather tires stopped from 1/2 to a full car length shorter than identical vehicles on summer and all season tires. Without cold weather tires vehicles are more likely to fishtail on corners and spin out in snow and icy conditions.
The impact of cold weather can be felt on summer/performance tires as soon as temperatures drop to just 45°F, according to the tire experts at BMW. Rubber compounds quickly stiffen, contributing to slipping, skidding and an overall reduction in vehicle performance. According to Craig Westbrook, Vice President of Aftersales at BMW "the summer/performance tires that come on many of our vehicles with optional sport packages are designed for handling and performance on normal road conditions. Customers driving in geographic areas that experience these colder temperatures and or winter conditions should think about installing cold weather tires on their BMW".
BMW Centers take a proactive approach in educating drivers — even BMW SAV owners and vehicles with xDrive — on the safety and performance benefits of cold weather tires, regardless of road conditions.
Why BMW Approved Cold Weather Wheels & Tires?
Formulation — BMW Approved Cold Weather Tires' carefully formulated mix of compounds actively generates heat, so tires reach optimum operating temperature faster.
Design — Larger tread blocks and open channels provide more traction in ice and snow while reducing the risk of skidding on wet roads.
Safety — Increased levels of grip reduce hydroplaning and can shorten braking distances as much as 20% compared to summer/performance tires.
Local BMW Centers are the experts to consult when choosing Cold Weather Tires and wheel combinations for BMW vehicles and some dealers even store their customer's summer tire and wheel sets while providing the very best value in service to conduct the semiannual seasonal tire / wheel exchange.
Schedule a visit to your local BMW Center to take advantage of the BMW Cold Weather Tire Program.
I am giving up my Nokian Hakkapeliittas with my old VW that's being replaced.
I'll try one winter on the dealer/CPO Bridgestones (Kabushiki-gaisha Burijisuton), then if I'm not pleased, I'll bite the bullet for a second set of wheels for another set of Hakk's. There is much to be learned before then.
Yes, the video is quite an interesting one and offers lots of information on winter tires. And now you could get even better information about these on the user manuals of the vehicles.
But if you somehow lost the user manual for your vehicle, you could easily get it on manuals.co, which provides manuals for all kinds of vehicles.


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   The project included the renovation and expansion of the existing hospital.  The project consisted of the construction of a two story addition to the existing hospital and included operating site expansion and upgrades, a new pharmacy, a new loading dock and materials management, a new lab space, new office space, life safety upgrades to the existing North and East wings, and (25) critical access patient bed spaces consisting of; OB birthing center, isolated ICU suite, psychiatric patient holding/infectious isolation room, and activities room.  The expansion/renovation area was approximately 25,000 sq. ft.  L.N. Consulting was the mechanical and electrical engineer for the project.

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This Woodworking Company Aims to Make Heirloom Pieces
Boston's Cannon Hill Woodworking constructs striking, fully bespoke dining tables and more.
By Alene Bouranova· 2/23/2022, 9:30 a.m.
Making a curved table base requires stacking multiple slats of wood on top of one another—and plenty of planning. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
If Sam O'Leary could have one wish, it would be that his tables outlive him. "We're trying to make heirloom pieces," explains the cofounder and shop manager of Cannon Hill Woodworking, a Roxbury and Seaport–based custom woodworking company that specializes in dining tables. "When you deliver something and the client goes, 'I'm going to give this to my kid [one day]'—that's sick."
Of course, it's not as if a meal tastes better on a custom dining table than on a mass-produced one. (Or does it?) It's more that mealtime becomes a little more meaningful when you throw bespoke work into the equation, O'Leary posits. "I think you appreciate your table more than if you picked something out of a catalog," he says.
That ethos applies to more than just dining tables. Since starting the company in late 2018, cofounders Zack Hardoon and O'Leary, along with their first employee, Ross Ratner, have designed and fabricated all manner of wood creations for clients. They've produced bedroom sets, bookshelves, desks—which have seen a boom during the pandemic—dining hutches, and scores of coffee and side tables for local homeowners. They've even dabbled in the commercial space on a few occasions: notably, both Downeast Cider House and Castle Island Brewing Co. feature Cannon Hill tables in their Boston taprooms.
Putting high-quality, American-made woodwork into New England homes and businesses was always Cannon Hill's goal, says Hardoon, who has a background in carpentry. "We've made a bet that if you give great customer service, help people understand every decision they make, and deliver a really slam-dunk product, that people will pay for quality," he says. So far, it's working out. Cannon Hill manufactured around 200 dining tables in 2021 alone, including one for a Hollywood A-lister's Cohasset home. Also in the works is a seamless, patent-pending extension system for dining tables.
With little margin for error, the team's work has to be "meticulous," Zach Hardoon says. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
Although Cannon Hill specializes in dining tables, it also manufactures scores of smaller ones, like this round pedestal table. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
A sample board from the company's Seaport showroom indicates the durability of different finishes. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
Dining tables make up about 90 percent of Cannon Hill's business, O'Leary says. Most are made from white oak or black walnut, and sometimes reclaimed wood. Perusing the company's Instagram reveals just how much range the furniture staple can hold: There are farmhouse-style, midcentury-modern, and contemporary tables, as well as plenty of live-edge pieces, as always.
And all are made-to-order. For a live-edge table, the client first picks out a hardwood slab from lumber company Berkshire Products' inventory, either in-person or online. Once they settle on a slab, Berkshire ships it to Cannon Hill's Roxbury workshop. One perk of working with Berkshire: Since the supplier's slabs are almost always fully dried, the Cannon Hill team can get to work as soon as one arrives. (With other suppliers, the team sometimes has to store the slabs away to dry—a process that generally takes "a year for every inch thick" a slab is, O'Leary explains.)
Because wood naturally comes with imperfections—like splits and dead spots—the builders have to determine how to cut a slab down so clients
get the best-looking table possible. Once they have a roadmap figured out, they call the client for a sign-off: "We never cut without the customer's approval," O'Leary says. After cutting the slab with a track saw, a circular saw mounted on a metal track, it's time to address the imperfections.
One of the final steps for making a tabletop is to sand it down until it's perfectly flush. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
The pieces of a tabletop are glued together. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
A trestle-style wood-and-metal base is a functional work of art. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
Any textural irregularities get shaved off with a hand planer (basically a cheese slicer for wood) until the slab is nice and flat. For a split—also known as a "check"—builders glue in "bow-ties," or tapered wood inserts, to keep the split from spreading. For cracks, knotholes, or "voids," they fill the offending spot with layers of epoxy, surrounded by a border of caulking to prevent seepage, and let it cure for a day or two.
Then come the finishing steps. Workers use sanders of varying grits to sand the slab until it's level and smooth, finishing with a high-level polishing sander. To seal the tabletop, they apply either an oil or spray finish, retaining the natural color of the wood. The final touches are where Cannon Hill's attention to detail really shows, Hardoon explains. "Once you put the finish on, you want everything that you did underneath it to be perfect, or else you have to work backward," he says. "It's very careful and meticulous work to get these things to our level of standards."
Finally, it's time to work on the base. To make one of Cannon Hill's "X" pedestal bases, which feature a steel beam punching through a wooden slab, O'Leary draws up a design in a rendering program. He sends the design to a welder friend, who then welds the steel beam in his workshop. While he's welding, Cannon Hill builders are making the wood part of the base: They cut boards (of the same wood as the tabletop) down to size, plane them and sand them, then cut notches in each side, gluing them together around the beam. Final assembly takes place during installation—workers slide the steel and wood into place, screw them into the tabletop, and voilà! A happy customer has a brand-new, completely custom dining table.
Builders use "bow-ties," or tapered wood inserts, to keep splits from spreading. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
From left, Cannon Hill's first employee, Ross Ratner, and cofounders Zach Hardoon and Sam O'Leary, who started the company in 2018. / Photo by Pat Piasecki
Recently, Cannon Hill has seen an uptick in repeat customers. That alone makes the team's hustle worth it, says Hardoon, recalling the earliest days when it was just him and O'Leary making one table a week. "There were times when we'd both just like, burst into tears from stress," he admits.
Now, Cannon Hill is up to nine staffers who put out around four tables a week on average. Hardoon and O'Leary have toyed with the idea of adding a third space to the Cannon Hill family just for processing live-edge slabs, in addition to the Roxbury workshop and Seaport showroom. But until that
happens, they're staying committed to the original goal: making kick-ass products for folks who appreciate design and craftsmanship.
"I don't ever want to buy cheaper materials or cut corners," Hardoon says. "We're going to stay devoted to creating a perfect product and process, and making the nicest, most-custom tables that you can find."
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