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The Happiest Man In The World An Account Of The Life Of Poppa Neutrino Alec Wilkinson by Alec Wilkinson 9781400065431, 1400065437 instant download after payment.
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.
TheNew 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.
