The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw

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.

Sequences
The dumbest antelope
Out of sync
Kid brothers and their practical application
The fried flies, please, and easy on the garlic
At loose ends
Getting it in the ear
Garage sale hype
How to get started in bass fishing
As the worm squirms
Scoring
A road less traveled by
Gunkholing
Blips
The night the bear ate Goombaw
Water spirits
Letter to the boss
Scritch’s creek
The tin horn
Cupidity, draw thy bow
Whitewater fever
Never cry “Arp!”
Visions of fish and game
A brief history of boats and marriage
Boating disorders
Try not to annoy me