I Married Adventure

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ADVENTURE / TRAVEL LITERATURE
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS
"The essence of this story is that two people, very much in love, followed their dreams, living a life full of risks and far from the comforts of home. Yet this story of their adventures more than sixty years ago will thrill a reader of the 1990s and beyond."
—from the Foreword by Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum
efore ]oy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed
Bto Samoa, before Dlan Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin ]ohnson, a pioneering photographer iust back from a 'round-the-world cruise with ]ack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions... Tovább

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ADVENTURE / TRAVEL LITERATURE
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS
"The essence of this story is that two people, very much in love, followed their dreams, living a life full of risks and far from the comforts of home. Yet this story of their adventures more than sixty years ago will thrill a reader of the 1990s and beyond."
—from the Foreword by Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum
efore ]oy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed
Bto Samoa, before Dlan Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin ]ohnson, a pioneering photographer iust back from a 'round-the-world cruise with ]ack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it's a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.
Osa ]ohnson was born in 1893 in Chanute, Kansas. She married Martin ]ohnson in 1910 and accompanied him on all of his expeditions until 1937, when he was killed in a commercial airiine crash. In 1940 she published I Married Adventure, which became a worldwide bestseller, and established the Martin and Osa ]ohnson Safari Museum in Chanute, Kansas.
"Tells the whole story unaffectedly and with a simple charm that Is highly engaging. It belongs on any list of Americana, for the Johnsons were as American as Davy Crockett."
—Joseph Wood Krutch, The Nation Vissza