Rory Nugent: 3 books
The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck
A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling on to Delhi, he was befriended by a Cambridge-educated...
by Rory Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
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. Its once-prosperous...
Drums Along the Congo
On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosur
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
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...