Buddy Levy
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Buddy Levy

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Buddy Levy's most recent book is Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue (St. Martin's Press, 2025). Levy is the author of nine books and his work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Kirkus Book Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Daily Beast, The A.V. Club and Library Journal. He was the co-star, for 25 episodes from 2010-2012, on HISTORY Channel’s hit docuseries Brad Meltzer’s DECODED, which aired to an average of 1.7 million weekly viewers and is still airing as reruns today. In 2018 he was an on-camera expert on the 4-part TV Series THE FRONTIERSMEN: The Men Who Built America (HISTORY, Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio). Levy’s book Empire of Ice & Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (St. Martin's Press, 2022) won the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award and was a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Award. It was also an Amazon Editor's Pick and an Indie Next Booksellers Recommended Read. Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (St. Martins Press, 2019), won the National Outdoor Book Award (2020) and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel Literature (2020). Levy is the author of the National Bestseller No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon (with Erik Weihenmayer; Thomas Dunne Books, 2017); GERONIMO: The Life and Times of An American Warrior (co-authored with Coach Mike Leach, Simon & Schuster, 2014) and River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Bantam Dell, 2011). His other books include the critically acclaimed and Amazon #1 Bestseller Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Bantam Dell, 2008), which he is currently developing for a television series; American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Putnam, 2005, Berkley Books, 2006); and Echoes On Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge (Pruett, 1998). His books have been published in seven languages. Levy was a contributing writer on the 2018 documentary film The Weight of Water. The film was based in part on the book No Barriers, which Levy co-authored with blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer. The film premiered at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize and the Best Mountain Film Award. It has since won The People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2018 Denver Film Festival; Best Sport and Adventure Film at the 2018 Mendi Bilbao Film Festival; and Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Waimea Ocean Film Festival. As a freelance journalist he has covered adventure sports and lifestyle/travel subjects around the world, including working with TV impresario Mark Burnett on numerous Eco-Challenges, and other adventure expeditions in Argentina, Borneo, Europe, Greenland, Morocco, and the Philippines. His interests are wide-ranging: discovery and adventure, the mountain men, arctic exploration travail, clashes of empires and civilizations, conspiracy theories, and riveting human stories of survival. You can find Buddy Levy on most social media outlets.
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    • River of Darkness

    • Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
    • Written by: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • Conquistador

    • Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
    • Written by: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2008-07-16
    • Language: English
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    • Realm of Ice and Sky

    • Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
    • Written by: Buddy Levy
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    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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    • The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
    • Written by: Buddy Levy
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    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-14
    • Language: English
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