I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson

By Osa Johnson

Book Overview

A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS

Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager
named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568361289
• ISBN13: 9781568361284
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

I Married Adventure

The conditionion of the book was very good and it arrived promptly. The story is worthy of anyone's read and the photographs interspersed with the text were excellent.

The Best TRUE Adventure I've Ever Read

I first read "I Married Adventure" when I took this book out of my local library as a student. It fascinated me. I was pleasantly surprised when I found it to still be available.Martin and Osa Johnson lived what they wrote. There is no pretense in their lives. They were true adventurers. They made a great contribution to the world of adventure. I'm sure they inspired many to further their boundaries.This is an adventure that will cause you to hold your breath while reading, wondering how they got through.I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to live outside their border. It's breathtaking!

I Married Adventure review

Though I am biased, since Osa Johnson was my grandfather's aunt, I have read this book a couple of times and have always found it to be well-written and easy to relate to. Osa was a woman ahead of her time, driving a truck, hunting fowl for dinner, and planting a garden with the help of hired African men, only to see it trampled by elephants. This story really gives a clear picture of what it was like to be one of very few American women traveling in undeveloped parts of the world in the 1920s and 30s.

The most spell-binding book I ever read.

I read the first edition of this book in about 1947 right after I left the service. (WW2) This book covered parts of Africa, and showed pictures so fine and detailed that to this day I can still see them in my minds eye. I still recall, they had a friend in A. Blaney Percival---Game Warden. Their head man around camp was named Boculy These and many other anecdotes are still vivid in my memory after all these years. For fine reading, I couldnt recommend a better book. I eagerly awaitmy re-print copy w5bok@txucom.net