Buddy Levy is the author of the recent books No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon (with Erik Weihenmeyer), Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior (with Mike Leach), and River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon. His other books include Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs, which was a finalist for the 2009 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and nominated for the 2009 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award and a 2009 PEN Center USA Award, American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett, and Echoes on Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge. His books have been published in six languages.
As a freelance journalist, he has covered adventure sports and lifestyle/travel subjects around the world, including several Eco-Challenges and other adventure expeditions in Argentina, Borneo, Europe, Greenland, Morocco, and the Philippines. His magazine articles and essays have appeared in Alaska Beyond, Backpacker, Big Sky Journal, Couloir, Discover, High Desert Journal, Poets & Writers, River Teeth, Ski, Trail Runner, Utne Reader, TV Guide, and VIA. He is clinical associate professor of English at Washington State University, and lives in northern Idaho.
Praise for River of Darkness: "River of Darkness immediately takes
its place as the definitive book on one of the great voyages into
the unknown of all time, Orellana's accidental first descent of the
Amazon. Not only is it a solid contribution to the scholarly
literature on Amazonia, but it is a riveting and irresistible read,
narrative history of a literary quality rarely encountered that
compares with Alan Moorehead's great books on the Nile. Bravissimo
!" -- Alex Shoumatoff, contributing editor, Vanity Fair; publisher
DispatchesFromTheVanishingworld.com,
and author of In Southern Light, The Rivers Amazon, and The World
is Burning
"In River of Darkness, Buddy Levy proves that the scariest stories
are the true ones. Filled with fascinating details and the terror
that comes with exploring something for the very first time, this
is history coming back to life."
- Brad Meltzer, Bestselling author of The Book of Fate and The
Inner Circle
"Buddy Levy is one of those rare and gifted authors whose books are
virtual time machines that effortlessly transport us back through
centuries. In River of Darkness, we participate in one of history's
signal explorations, Francisco Orellana's descent of the Amazon
River. We see blood, smell smoke, hear screams of joy and agony.
Levy's impeccably researched book is at once harrowing adventure
and revealing history. Better than any in recent memory, River of
Darkness sheds new light--and reveals the darkest aspects--of the
Conquistadors' brave and bloody New World forays."
-James M. Tabor, Author of Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the
Deepest Place on Earth.
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