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

Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous thoughts 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 guidance than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois, where he grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield, to his theatre 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 engaging topics.

A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons, and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only entertain readers but may also inspire them to put down their smartphones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even handcraft (and paddle) their own canoes.