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The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date. There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the trees and good company and good talk and the sense. Themes and characters run through the entire book, such as boyhood independence and characters such as his. So i bought more of this authors books when my husband was in the hospital with a stroke. He is the author of many books, including such runaway new. Mcmanus maintains just the right balance between baffled innocence and conspiratorial confidence. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone. Definitely like the older ones better they shoot canoes, don t they and the others. Starting with his trademark outdoorsmans wit, patrick f. It was adapted into sydney pollacks 1969 film of the same name.
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