Paddle Your Own Canoe

<b><i>Parks and Recreation</i>&#160;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&#151;who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming always manly Nick Offerman best known as&#160;<i>Parks and Recreation</i>&#146;s Ron Swanson? &#160;Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking&#151;he runs his own woodshop&#151;<i>Paddle Your Own Canoe</i>&#160;features&#160;tales&#160;from Offerman&#146;s childhood&#160;in small-town Minooka Illinois&#151;&#147;I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield&#148;&#151;to his theater days in Chicago beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally.&#160;&#160;&#160;It also offers&#160;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&#160;<i>Paddle Your Own Canoe</i>&#160;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.