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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. More than a decade later, her name still had selling power.
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.
7 Ιαν 2021 · Perhaps her most prominent contribution is the Fighting African Elephants display—she killed the larger of the two elephants—in the Field Museum’s Stanley Field Hall, where every visitor enters.
explorer filmmaker writer author. Osa Johnson was an American explorer, filmmaker, and writer. Together with her husband, they made a series of films featuring mostly African and South Sea tribal groups and wildlife.
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.
12 Φεβ 2019 · This classic, bestselling memoir tells of the often heart-stopping adventures of early 20th-century explorers and photographers Osa and Martin Johnson - now in a new edition featuring...
