Paddle Your Own Canoe

<b><i>Parks and Recreation</i> actor and <i>Making It</i> co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life manliness meat and much more in this <i>New York Times</i> bestseller.<br></b><br>Growing a perfect moustache grilling red meat wooing a woman--who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming always manly Nick Offerman best known as <i>Parks and Recreation</i>'s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking--he runs his own woodshop--<i>Paddle Your Own Canoe</i> features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka Illinois--I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield--to 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. <p/>A mix of amusing anecdotes opinionated lessons and rants sprinkled with offbeat gaiety <i>Paddle Your Own Canoe</i> 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.