Paddle Your Own Canoe

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