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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.
Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a womanâwho better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreationâs Ron Swanson?  Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworkingâhe runs his own woodshopâPaddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offermanâs childhood in small-town Minooka, IllinoisââI grew up literally in the middle of a cornfieldââto his thea
Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.
Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a womanâwho better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreationâs Ron Swanson?  Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworkingâhe runs his own woodshopâPaddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offermanâs childhood in small-town Minooka, IllinoisââI grew up literally in the middle of a cornfieldââto his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally.   It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees.
A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.
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Manufacturer: Dutton
Release date: 2 September 2014
ISBN-10 : 0451467094 |
ISBN-13: 9780451467096
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