Patrick F. McManus has probably been one of my favorite authors since my youth. An outdoor humorist who grew up in the 1940's in Rural Idaho, his humor is what I would consider a classic American type along the lines of Mark Twain that would only come from growing up in Rural America before the advent of urbanization.
Whether you're a hunter, an angler, a camper, and outdoors enthusiast or not, McManus will leave you in stitches! I don't know that I have ever shared a McManus book with someone and they didn't love it and end up cracking up over it.
A collection of short stories, such as "The Grasshopper Trap" (the best way to catch a butt load of grasshoppers for fishing bait in true redneck fashion and sell them to become a wealthy fisherman without having to do any work) or "The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw" (a family outing with a paranoid demented grandmother who can set even the most hardened outdoor enthusiast on edge) it really is a good laugh.
SO! As you can see, you can purchase the book (at the time of the posting of this) for $0.01 + shipping, (From whoever is selling them) and there's an entire collection of his. But it's something I guarantee the outdoor enthusiast even if they don't really enjoy reading would enjoy.
His total works include:
A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978)
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? (1981)
Never Sniff A Gift Fish (1983)
The Grasshopper Trap (1985)
Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs (1987)
The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw (1989)
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink (1991)
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again (1992)
How I Got this Way (1994)
Never Cry "Arp!" And Other Great Adventures (1996)
Into The Twilight, Endlessly Grousing (1997)
Kerplunk!: Stories (2007)
