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They Married Adventure - The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (Paperback)
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They Married Adventure - The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (Paperback)
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Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and
30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic
peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own
lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the
South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying
small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Osa
Johnson's ghostwritten autobiography, I Married Adventure, became a
national bestseller. The 1939 film version was billed as "the story
of World Exploration's First Lady, whose indomitable daring would
be stayed by neither snarling lion nor crouching leopard, tropic
tempest nor savage tribesman " Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin
seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of
self-reliance. Probing beneath the glamor of the Johnsons' public
image, Pascal and Eleanor Imperato explore the more human side of
the couple's lives--and ways the Johnsons shaped, for better and
for worse, America's vision of Africa. Drawing on many years of
research, access to a wealth of letters and archives, interviews
with many who worked closely with the Johnsons, and their own deep
knowledge of Africa, the authors present a fascinating and intimate
portrait of this intrepid couple.
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