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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400065431
The Happiest Man in the World buoyantly describes
seventy-four-year-old David Pearlman, a restless and migratory
soul, a mariner, a musician, a member of the Explorers Club and a
friend of the San Francisco Beats, a former preacher and sign
painter, a polymath, a pauper, and a football strategist for the
Red Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation. When Pearlman was fifty, he
was bitten on the hand by a dog in Mexico and for two years got so
sick that he thought he would die. When he recovered, he felt so
different that he decided he needed a new name. He began calling
himself Poppa Neutrino, after the itinerant particle that is so
small it can hardly be detected. To Neutrino, the particle
represents the elements of the hidden life that assert themselves
discreetly.
Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki, Neutrino is the only man
ever to build a raft from garbage he found on the streets of New
York and sail it across the North Atlantic.
The New York Daily News described the accomplishment as “the sail
of the century.” National Geographic broadcast an account of the
trip as part of its series on extreme adventures. And now he is on
a quest to cross the Pacific on a raft. If he makes it, he plans to
continue around the world. No one has ever sailed around the world
on a raft. Meanwhile, he has invented the Neutrino Clock Offense,
an unstoppable football play, which a former coach of the New York
Jets describes as being as innovative as the forward pass.
The philosophical underpinnings of Neutrino’s existence are what
he calls Triads, a concept worked out after years of reading and
reflection. He believes that each person, to be truly happy, must
define his or her three deepest desires and pursue them
remorselessly. Freedom, Joy, and Art are Neutrino’s three.
The Happiest Man in the World is a lavish, exotic, funny, and
deeply serious book about a man who has led a life of profound
engagement and ceaseless adventure.
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