Biography: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. 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/hope-floats/307441/. Retrieved 10 July 2013. MS Oasis of the Seas
References
- ↑ Cary, Alice (1993-07-18). "In Search of the Elusive". Boston Herald: p. 7 (magazine).
- ↑ Mundow, Anna (2009-02-22). "Attuned to the voices of New Bedford". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/02/22/attuned_to_the_voices_of_new_bedford/.
- ↑ Podolsky, J.D. (1993-09-06). "Paths of Rory". People. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20106200,00.html.
- ↑ Upchurch, Michael (1991-06-09). "No Duck, But The Quest Was Worth The Trouble". Seattle Times. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910609&slug=1288115.
- ↑ Wanner, Irene (1993-10-03). "Drums Along The Congo: On The Trail Of Mokele-Mbembe, The Last Living Dinosaur". Seattle Times. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19931003&slug=1724234.
- ↑ "The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck". Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Drums Along the Congo. Kirkus Reviews.
- ↑ "Drums Along the Congo". Publishers Weekly.
- ↑ 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
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