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Buddy Levy

Biography

Buddy Levy

Buddy Levy is the author of more than half a dozen books, including LABYRINTH OF ICE: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition; CONQUISTADOR: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs; and RIVER OF DARKNESS: Francisco Orellana’s Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon. He is coauthor of NO BARRIERS: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon and GERONIMO: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior. His books have been published in eight languages. He lives in Idaho.

Buddy Levy

Books by Buddy Levy

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
by Buddy Levy - History, Nonfiction

In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who was hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1,000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope.

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
by Buddy Levy - History, Nonfiction

In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge --- vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures and months of total darkness --- as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. LABYRINTH OF ICE tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune --- at any cost --- and how their journey changed the world.