Into The Twilight Endlessly Grousing

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127336
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Twain -- or more contemporary humorists Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor -- Patrick McManus shares the belief that life's eternal verities exist primarily to be overturned. In McManus's world, all steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed they were. In this, the tenth hilarious collection of his adventures, wry observations, and curmudgeonly calls for bigger and bigger fish stories, McManus takes on everything from an Idaho crime wave to his friend Dolph's atomic-powered huckleberry picker to the uncertain joys of standing waist-deep in icy water, watching the fish go by.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684844404
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing written by Patrick F. McManus and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In McManus's world, all steaks would be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed them to be."--Jacket.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127336
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Twain -- or more contemporary humorists Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor -- Patrick McManus shares the belief that life's eternal verities exist primarily to be overturned. In McManus's world, all steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a campfire, and fishing trips consist of men acting like boys and boys behaving like the small animals we've always assumed they were. In this, the tenth hilarious collection of his adventures, wry observations, and curmudgeonly calls for bigger and bigger fish stories, McManus takes on everything from an Idaho crime wave to his friend Dolph's atomic-powered huckleberry picker to the uncertain joys of standing waist-deep in icy water, watching the fish go by.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743280504
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kerplunk! written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of curmudgeonly tales on Pacific Northwest country living as enjoyed by both outdoorsmen and armchair enthusiasts, in a volume that explores the lighter side of such topics as gun safes, fly tying, and bird dog flatulence.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146680937X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bear in the Attic written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date. Overflowing with his trademark outdoorsman's wit, Patrick F. McManus's newest collection ponders the strange allure of the RV, the existential implications of being lost, the baffling tendency of animals to outsmart those who wish to hunt them, and the singular pleasure of doubling the size of every fish one doesn't actually catch. Combining the curmudgeonly voice of Dave Barry and the sly humor of Garrison Keillor, McManus brilliantly captures the everyday absurdities that comprise our existence. Alongside his humor, McManus's inimitable vision consistently evokes a childlike wonder at the natural world. Even if we are running low on food, the compass is broken, and we are fairly certain we have just spotted a family of Sasquatches frolicking in the treetops, The Bear in the Attic makes the outdoors seem irresistible.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466809523
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1982-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tongue pressed firmly in cheek and a gentle but penetrating eye for human foibles, Patrick F. McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in the recreations of camping, hunting, and fishing in his hilarious collection They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They? Gathered here for the reader’s edification are such treasures as the true but little known story of the discovery of the efficacy of live bait by Genghis Khan’s chef, an examination of the precarious and perhaps fanatical expertise required for ice fishing, and a consideration of the circumstances that can cause a deer to ride a bicycle. Among additional topics explored are The Crouch Hop and Other Useful Outdoor Steps, The Sensuous Angler, and Psychic Powers for Outdoorsmen. Included, too, is The Hunter’s Dictionary, an invaluable lexicon that helps the novice sportsman understand such arcane terminology as “Ooooooeee-ah-ah-ah! (If there’s one thing I hate, it’s putting on cold, wet pants in the morning)” and “Baff mast pime ig bead feas mid miff pife! (That’s the last time I try to eat peas in the dark with my hunting knife!)” The author’s appreciation of outdoor life began in his early boyhood, when he absorbed a wealth of improbable information imparted by the old woodsman Rancid Crabtree, “who bathed only on leap years.” Young McManus also enjoyed special adventures with his ill-remembered sidekick, Retch Sweeney, and another boon companion of days gone by, the loquacious family dog, Strange, whose exploits as a hunter were limited to assaulting stray chickens and on one memorable occasion a skunk. “McManus here follows up A Fine and Pleasant Misery with a collection of sketches that launches him into the front ranks of outdoor humorists.”—Library Journal

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466809493
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1990-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Outdoor Living. Patrick F. McManus’s hilarious and comic stories of camping and other nature-oriented activities reach ridiculous proportions in The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw. From teaching his stepfather the methods of madness behind farm work through his best friend’s grandmother’s fear of bears, McManus reveals that human behavior is even wilder than the wilderness.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 : 9780805009224
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatchagot Stew written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs blend fact and fiction including recipes for edible and not-so-edible dishes

Author : Bill Heavey
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555848567
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? written by Bill Heavey and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious collection of essays dedicated to life in the great outdoors from Field & Stream’s acclaimed Sportsman’s Life columnist. For nearly a decade, Bill Heavey, an outdoorsman marooned in suburbia, has written the Sportsman’s Life column on the back page of Field & Stream, where he does for hunting and fishing what David Feherty does for golf and Lewis Grizzard did for the South. If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? is the first collection of Heavey’s sidesplitting observations on life as a hardcore (but often hapless) outdoorsman. Whether he’s hunting cougars in the desert, scheming to make his five-year-old daughter love fishing, or chronicling his father’s life through a succession of canine companions, Heavey brings his trademark wit to a wide-range of outdoor enthusiasms, running the gamut from elite expeditions to ordinary occupations. In turns hysterical and poignant, entertaining and educational, this is an irresistible addition to the collection of any avid outdoorsman—or any suburbanite intrigued by the call of the wild.

Author : Patrick F. McManus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629142832
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circles in the Snow written by Patrick F. McManus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has dealt with small-town crime throughout his long, storied career. Now, contemplating retirement after years on the job, Tully is faced with perhaps his most perplexing case yet. When area bald eagles start getting picked off by a ghost-like killer, and when a prominent local rancher is murdered by an arrow with eagle fletching, things gets complicated fast. In this fast-paced whodunit, Tully has a vast array of suspects to chose from—including the rancher’s gorgeous, bird-loving wife who mysteriously leaves for a ranch in Mexico the day of the murder; the beautiful chef at the local house of ill repute, who is well-known as a budding ornithologist; and the ranch foreman, who is rumored to be having an affair with his boss’s widow. Will Tully put the pieces of the puzzle together, yet again? Will sending his dad, the former sheriff of Blight County, along with his number two man, down to Mexico help solve the mystery? And what about the mysterious large circles in the snow that Tully finds around the ranch—with no footprints leading in or out of the area? It all adds up to another engrossing series of twists and turns. And in the end, Tully gets his man . . . or woman . . . or does he? Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.