Rory Nugent

Rory Nugent (born 1952) is an American explorer and writer. He was based out of New Bedford, Massachusetts ^[1] from 1988 to 2004. ^[2]

Biography

Nugent was born in New York 1952. He attended Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut.^{[ citation needed ]} After he graduated from Williams College in 1975, he went to sea aboard freighters and canvas-fliers. He sailed solo across the Atlantic Ocean four times. His fifth crossing ended prematurely when the catamaran he was sailing capsized; he was rescued five days later. ^[3]

In 1992, Nugent became a foreign correspondent, first for Men's Journal and then as a staff member of Spin . He left journalism in 2002 to work on his third book.

Cryptozoology

In the mid-1980s, Nugent mounted solo expeditions in search of the pink-headed duck on the Brahmaputra River ^[4] and Mokele-mbembe in the Congo. ^[5] It is alleged that he may have seen both, but his sightings remain unconfirmed. He wrote a non-fiction book about each expedition. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Nugent's alleged Mokele-mbembe photographs from 1985 have been criticized as unreliable. One was described as a distant snapshot of a log floating in a lake. ^[10]

Bibliography

Books

• The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)
• Drums Along The Congo: On The Trail Of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
• Down at the Docks (Pantheon Books, 2009)

Articles

• Nugent, Rory (June 2009). "Hope floats". The Atlantic . 303 (5): 62–63. Retrieved 10 July 2013. MS Oasis of the Seas

References

1. Cary, Alice (1993-07-18). "In Search of the Elusive". Boston Herald. p. 7 (magazine).
2. Mundow, Anna (2009-02-22). "Attuned to the voices of New Bedford". Boston Globe.
3. Podolsky, J.D. (1993-09-06). "Paths of Rory". People.
4. Upchurch, Michael (1991-06-09). "No Duck, But The Quest Was Worth The Trouble". Seattle Times.
5. Wanner, Irene (1993-10-03). "Drums Along The Congo: On The Trail Of Mokele-Mbembe, The Last Living Dinosaur". Seattle Times.
6. "The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck". Publishers Weekly.
7. "BOOK REVIEW: Self-Styled Adventurer’s Colorful Quest for African ‘God-Beast’: DRUMS ALONG THE CONGO: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur". Los Angeles Times.
8. Drums Along the Congo. Kirkus Reviews.
9. "Drums Along the Congo". Publishers Weekly.
10. Loxton, Daniel; Prothero, Donald (2013). Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press. p. 284. ISBN   978-0-231-15320-1

External links

• Rory Nugent