Buddy Levy, Author . Putnam $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-399-15278-8
Levy presents a sympathetic but unremarkable biography of the legendary frontiersman in colloquial if occasionally florid prose (an election loss "burned into Crockett like a brand searing a cow's flank"). Those whose image of Crockett...
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Buddy Levy, Bantam, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80750-9
In this fluid account, Levy narrates the story of the conquistadors who become the first Europeans to navigate the length of the Amazon River. After plundering the Inca empire, Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco Orellana set out from Quito with an...
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Buddy Levy. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-18219-7
Levy (River of Darkness) recounts the story of the 1881–1884 Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in this evocative, deeply researched account. Led by Lt. Adolphus W. Greeley, the U.S. Army Signal Corps expedition sought to establish a research station in...
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Buddy Levy. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-27444-1
Journalist Levy (Labyrinth of Ice) delivers a thrilling account of Canada’s first “foray into Arctic exploration,” the ill-fated voyage of the steam-powered brigantine Karluk in 1913. Under the command of Capt. Bob Bartlett, the Karluk was the...
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Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-08878-9
Named after Weihenmayer’s support organization, this memoir reads like an extension of its mission statement, right down to the concluding “No Barriers Pledges.” After Weihenmayer (Touch the Top of the World), a blind adventurist, scales Mt. Everest,
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