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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