rory nugent

My Works

DOWN AT THE DOCKS
In the tradition of MOBY-DICK, DOWN AT THE DOCKS is an authentic American fish story and along the way, it logs the passage of a nation from bottom of the heap to top of the pile

THE SEARCH FOR THE PINK HEADED DUCK
TRAVEL WRITING AT TOP FORM..Atlantic Magazine

In Nugent, America has at last produced a travel writer as crazy as the British....John Leonard, Newsday & NPR


DRUMS ALONG THE CONGO, THE SEARCH FOR MOKELE-MBEMBE, THE LAST LIVING DINOSAUR
THE PAST STILL BREATHES.

A spanking good travelogue...Great writing...Kirkus Reviews

REBELS OF THE APOCALYPSE
THE WAR IN SUDAN AND THE BEST STUFF WRITTEN ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN, WELL, DECADES, MAYBE EVER...THE INDEPENDENT

Short-listed for ASME award

MARCH OF THE GREEN FLAG, STRIDENT ISLAMISTS ON THE MOVE
KHARTOUM,94-95, WITH THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM

A wonderful mix of adventure and reportage told by one of America's best journalists...Guardian

INSIDE THE IRA
REPORT FROM BEHIND THE MASK AND NONE BETTER, Village Voice

ASME short-list and short-listed for Press Association Picture of the year




Superboat
OASIS OF THE SEAS sets a new standard in ocean travel.
Everything about her is big: price tag, size, fuel consumption.

My Lunch With Osama Bin Laden
For Rolling Stone Magazine... Read this story and learn from a reporter who was tracking radical Islam, its root and meaning, back when the rest of the media was content to phone-in work about celebrity culture...SF Chronicle


UPSIDE DOWN
En route to the start of the 1980 Observer Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race, Nugent's boat, Godiva Chocolates, was capsized by a rogue wave eleven miles from that exact spot in the North Atlantic most remote from land

in bookstores Feb. 17



IRA at a Belfast Disco

IRA OP near the border

IRA on patrol


Southern Sudan, where the horrific has twisted itself into the everyday

on patrol, County Armagh

IRA Volunteer on road block duty in Northern Ireland

Selected Works

BOOK
DOWN AT THE DOCKS
A report from the water's edge on the people, ideas and things zooming toward the vanishing point
THE SEARCH FOR THE PINK HEADED DUCK
A GREAT RIDE ON THE TRAIL OF THE RAREST DUCK IN THE WORLD
JOURNALISM
REBELS OF THE APOCALYPSE
A VISIT TO HELL ON EARTH: SOUTHERN SUDAN
MARCH OF THE GREEN FLAG, STRIDENT ISLAMISTS ON THE MOVE
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE THE WHEELHOUSE CHARTING RADICAL ISLAM'S COURSE LEADING TO 9-11
INSIDE THE IRA
WRITTEN IN '94, THIS REMAINS THE STANDARD ARTICLE ON THE IRA
Atlantic Magazine
Superboat
The world's largest, most expensive cruise ship slips into the water as the recession blows a gale
Journalism
My Lunch With Osama Bin Laden
A simple meal in a complex place

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