Summer 2011
Buddy Levy: Historical investigator
In a fabulously snide review of the first episode of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel, a reviewer for The New York Times refers to investigator Buddy Levy, “who could be a bus driver but who is in fact an English professor at Washington State University and a freelance writer of magazine articles about adventure sports.”
Levy himself thinks that’s pretty funny.
“I’m cool with that,” he says. “I’m a bus driver who can write a narrative history of the Amazon.”
That narrative history, which our charming reviewer neglected to mention, is Levy’s latest book, River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of … » More …