Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host 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 woman-who better to deliver this tutelage than the
always charming always manly Nick Offerman best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson?
Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking-he runs his own
woodshop-Paddle Your Own Canoe 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. 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.
