Parks and Entertainment actor Nick Offerman stocks his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, plus much more in his first book.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman-who better to deliver this tutelage compared to the always enchanting, always manly Nick Offerman, most widely known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Merging his brand comic voice and very real knowledge in woodworking-he works his own woodshop-Paddle Your Very own Canoe features tales about Paddle Your Very own Canoe: One Man’s Basics for Mouth watering Living from Offerman’s years as a child in small-town Minooka, Illinois-“I was raised literally in the center of a cornfield”-to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor as well as the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. In addition, it offers hard-bitten fight strategies in the arenas of manliness, like, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among a great many other savory entrees.

A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe can not only tickle readers pink but could also rouse them to place down their clever phones, study several sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their very own canoes.