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My Works

DOWN AT THE DOCKS...Great writing...an extraordinary study of place that delves into the sort of sociology that Joe Mitchell gave us: Boston Globe

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.. WAPO deemed it A classic...SF Chronicle called it Important...At last, a worthy heir emerges to claim the legacy of Joe Mitchell... AP called DOCKS: Among America's best non-fiction...

If the world ended, I'd want to be with my friend Rory, because he would find a way for it not to end--up to a point, that is. He'd gravitate to that small part that wasn't going to end, because of some obscure hitch: a colonial contract that was still in force, perhaps...I think you could say that he is an explorer, but unconventional...And this book, In SEARCH OF THE PINK_HEADED DUCK, is wonderful...George Trow, New Yorker

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
This book is funny and smart, welcome to the big leagues, Mister Nugent...Newsday

The Tempest sent to the bottom, 2004

DRUMS ALONG THE CONGO is step two in Nugent's trip toward the New American Mind. It is funny and deep...The NY'er....The life of the jungle breathes through Rory Nugent, and exhales in a poetic, direct language that rushes along through a whirlwind of tantalizing events..Tobias Schneebaum...This book is wonderful. Travel writing at its best...WSJ

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; syndicated in 11 languages

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
Eerily accurate...we all should have read this piece the day it came out...SF Chronicle
One of the first and still one of the best stories on Islamic Fundamentalism....

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

A must read in the White House...The best reporting ever out of N.Ireland...WaPo



Video to accompany article available at Nugent's Vimeo site....https://vimeo.com/480071814

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
SS STAR VICTORIA COMES TO THE RESCUE IN THE MID-ATLANTIC.....

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