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1 Ιουλ 2021 · Martin Johnson died in a plane crash in 1937, but Osa Johnson carried on the work. Her ghostwritten memoir, I Married Adventure, with its striking zebra-patterned cloth cover, was the best-selling nonfiction book of 1940.
Martin Elmer Johnson (October 9, 1884 – January 13, 1937) and Osa Helen Johnson (née Leighty, March 14, 1894 – January 7, 1953) were married American adventurers and documentary filmmakers. In the first half of the 20th century the couple captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands.
Meet Martin and Osa Johnson. From 1917 to 1936, Martin and Osa Johnson set up camp in some of the most remote areas of the world and provided an unmatched photographic record of the wildernesses of Kenya, the Congo, British North Borneo and the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands.
Johnson, Osa (1894–1953) American explorer, film producer, author, and big game hunter. Born Osa Helen Leighty on March 14, 1894, in Chanute, Kansas; died on January 7, 1953, in New York, New York; daughter of Ruby (Holman) Leighty and William Leighty; attended Chanute High School; married Martin Johnson, on May 15, 1910 (killed, January 13 ...
Osa Johnson - Born: March 14, 1894, Chanute, Kansas. Died: January 7, 1953, New York City. In the 1920s and 1930s, the names of Martin and Osa Johnson were synonymous with African safaris or adventures in the South Seas.
14 Μαρ 2010 · A museum dedicated to Martin and Osa Johnson — explorers and household names in the 1920s and ’30s — is finding relevance today.
26 Ιουλ 2019 · Soon Osa and Martin had fallen in love and on 15 May Martin and Osa eloped. Martin signed up with the Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit in Chicago in 1911 and he and Osa travelled widely with Martin giving his travelogues and showing photos of the South Pacific island.
