Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Offerman, Nick

ISBN 10: 052595421X / ISBN 13: 9780525954217

Published by Dutton, New York, 2014

About this Item

Fifteenth printing. Signed by the star of Hearts Beat Loud on the title page: "to grit / Nick Offerman." The book is square and unmarked; one corner and tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $26.95); Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 013983

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
• Publisher: Dutton, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052595421X
• ISBN 13: 9780525954217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

NICK OFFERMAN is an actor, humorist, and woodworker. He is married to the most beautiful and talented actress working today, Megan Mullally. They live in Los Angeles, California, with their poodles and an impressive collection of assorted wood clamps.