River Yare

River in Norfolk that flows through the Broads to the sea at Great Yarmouth. In Three Men in a Boat the narrator recalls a boyhood sailing trip up it that nearly ended in a capsize.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Three Men in a Boat	Jerome K. Jerome	setting	As boys the narrator and Hector rig the sail upside-down and are saved only by a mud bank.

Three Men in a Boat — Jerome K. Jerome (1889)

Source: Exploration of Three Men in a Boat · Three Men in a Boat · Original · Readwise highlight

We were stopping down at Yarmouth, and we decided we would go for a trip up the Yare.

• Role: setting
• In the book: Staying at Yarmouth as boys, the narrator and his friend Hector hire a sailing boat for a trip up the Yare, rig the sail wrongly, are driven before the wind and saved from capsizing only by running onto a mud bank, where they wait three hours to be rescued.
• Why it matters: A remembered episode in the chapter on sailing; the place itself barely matters.