Matt Jackson

Never Light a Match in the Outhouse: Funny Stories from Cottage Country (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cottage Country: a place for antics, shenanigans and perfectly executed belly flops.

Spending time at the cottage is arguably the quintessential summer experience. Whether one travels there to swim in the lake, go fishing, pick berries, or lie out on the dock and watch the stars appear one after another, there's nothing quite like those lazy weekends spent in Cottage Country. From the publisher that brought you bestselling humor titles such as "Mugged by a Moose" and "A Beaver is Eating My Canoe," you can now enjoy a collection of hilarious stories about the lighter side of the cottaging experience.

* Find out what Greg Simison has been firing at the unsuspecting canoeists and Sea-Dooers of the Rideau Lakes chain.

* Join Bruce Day as he faces off against an army of porcupines in a bizarre battle of wits to save his cabin.

* Discover what peculiar creature Jeff Groberman hooked at the end of his fishing line.

* Ponder Don Wilkinson's "Weapon of Mashed Destruction" that he builds and then subsequently turns loose in Ontario's cottage country.

* Learn from James Osborne how to shrink wrap a cottage.

* Find out what fearsome creatures Alex Hamilton-Brown is hiding at his cottage in the Muskokas.

* Tag along with a young couple for their honeymoon of a lifetimeseveral months of homesteading in the remote Alaska wilderness.

And many more stories....

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Matt Jackson
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780986685675
• Artikelnr.: 70621339

Autorenporträt

A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier's Business Administration program in Waterloo, Canada, Matt Jackson was lured away from the corporate world by the thrill of adventure journalism while still a university student. He is now an author, editor, photojournalist and professional speaker, and is the president of Summit Studios, a publishing company specializing in books about travel, humor and the great outdoors.

Matt's first book, "The Canada Chronicles: A Four-year Hitchhiking Odyssey," is a Canadian bestseller and won the IPPY award for best North American travel memoir in 2004. He has edited eight anthologies of short stories, including bestselling titles "Mugged by a Moose," "A Beaver is Eating My Canoe," and "Never Trust a Smiling Bear." His writing and photographs have also been featured in more than two dozen popular magazines such as Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Backpacker, Explore, Canoe & Kayak, and BBC Wildlife.

He lives with his wife Stacey and daughter Louise in Victoria, BC, where they spend as much time hiking and kayaking as possible.