Buddy Levy

About The Author

Buddy Levy is the author of seven books, and his work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Daily Beast, and The A.V. Club. 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 DiCaprio).

Levy was a contributing writer on the 2018 documentary film The Weight of Water, based in part on the book No Barriers, which Levy co-authored with blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer.

Books by Buddy Levy

Crockett

The Real-Life Adventures of the Frontier Legend

By Buddy Levy
“A great myth-busting story, written in a taut narrative style that is guaranteed to keep the reader up all hours turning the pages.”
—Martin Dugard, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Killing Lincoln (with Bil...
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River of Darkness

Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon

By Buddy Levy
With a new introduction, the acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery, a legendary 16th-century explorer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon, river of darkness and pathway to gold—the first complete explor...
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