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)
^Loxton, Daniel; Prothero, Donald (2013). Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press. p. 284.
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