Background
Rory Nugent was born in 1952, in New York, to Joseph Nugent, a civil engineer, and Polly Nugent.
880 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
In 1974, Nugent received Master of Arts from Williams College, in Williamstown.
(In the heart of the Congo is rumored to live a dinosaur c...)
In the heart of the Congo is rumored to live a dinosaur called Mokele-Mbembe, or the god-beast. A handful of scientific expeditions have searched for it over the years with little success, but Nugent relied less on science than a desire to document the obscure. He made his way by dugout canoe and foot to Lake Tele, reputed home of the brontosaurus-like creature. It’s an environment little changed since the age of dinosaurs and he spent weeks paddling and trekking the area. He finally spotted a periscope-shaped object moving through the water. But when he tried to get closer, his guides threatened to shoot him, explaining that the “the god can approach man, but man never approaches the god.” Nugent’s photographs have been reprinted hundreds of times by those who believe in the god-beast. Drums Along the Congo merited inclusion on “Best 50 Books of the Year” list compiled by every major US newspaper.
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1993
(In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called...)
In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, “the dearest place to live in, in all of New England.” But the old fishing port and manufacturing center - once one of the richest cities in New England - has withered in the modern economy.
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2009
Rory Nugent was born in 1952, in New York, to Joseph Nugent, a civil engineer, and Polly Nugent.
In 1974, Nugent received Master of Arts from Williams College, in Williamstown.
Nugent shipped out aboard freighters and canvas fliers and was a partner at Dafy Duck Marine, the builders of a motorboat guaranteed to sink (the ORCA in the movie JAWS) and sailboats that turned the boating industry on its head (Newick designed VAL class trimarans). As a seaman, he made his bones early on, in 1976, the youngest competitor in the Observer Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race. He finished out of the money, but stayed in the game and went on to make four solo Atlantic crossings. His fifth passage aboard the racer Godiva Chocolates, in 1980, ended in shipwreck smack dab in the middle of the drink. He was rescued five days later and twenty-eight pounds lighter.
Not wanting to swim anymore, Nugent took to field research and set out to document some of nature's numinous wonders before they vanished from the map and mind. He mounted a one-man expedition in search of India's missing jewel, the Pink-Headed Duck; afterward, he set off to contact Nessie's African cousin, Mokele-Mbembe, the Bronto of the Congo. He may have seen both. He remained on the trail of the elusive and spent months scouring the Anti-Atlas region for a desert bloom believed to flower once every 250 years. That search continues. His travels led him into uncharted territory (Likouala Basin), down great rivers (Nile--White and Blue, Sobat, Uele/Ubangi, Sangha, Congo, and the Brahmaputra), across deserts (Great Western Erg and Great Sand Sea), and into a rarely seen world above the clouds, in the Himalayas. His first two books, Drums Along the Congo and The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck, document some of his discoveries.
In 1992, Nugent switched gears and began working full time as a journalist, his beat the nightmare, his quest those elements allowing it to prosper. For the next ten years, as a freelancer and staff writer for Spin Magazine, he tracked nitwit generals and their lousy wars in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Along the way, he became intimate with both the priests and prophets of intolerance, along with the demons that rise out of bullets, machetes, famine, and killing fields the size of Texas. Handy with a camera, he took the pictures that accompanied all his writing assignments.
(In the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called...)
2009(In the heart of the Congo is rumored to live a dinosaur c...)
1993Nugent changed gears in 1992 to become a foreign correspondent, first for Men's Journal and then as a staff member of Spin.
Author and explorer Rory Nugent became interested in pursuing a career as an explorer when his fourth-grade teacher, much to his chagrin, denied the existence of dinosaurs. The other event that had tremendous influence in his life was when he had to survive in the vast openness of the Atlantic Ocean for four days when his catamaran capsized. Since then he has established a reputation as a daring traveler and has devoted his life to seeking rare fauna and flora and, of course, adventure.
Quotes from others about the person
“For Nugent, sighting some fauna or smelling the flora along the way means just as much as chasing, or even catching, the creatures of his imagination.” - J. D. Podolsky