Osa Johnson Livres

"For Osa, too, these years, from 1924 to 1927, were an especially significant period. After seven years of touring the vaudeville circuit, and seven more of exploring the South Seas and Borneo with occasional lecture tours worked in stateside to raise more capital, the Johnsons' complex at Lake Paradise was the first relatively permanent home the coup had had since that little flat they started out in back in Independence. Osa not only brought all her Kansas skills to bear on turning her Kenya house into a home, she also was largely responsible for managing the roughly two hundred "boys" needed to build the place and keep it running, as well as for organizing the several safaris the Johnsons undertook in the course of those years. When they were on safari (a term which incidentally, the Johnsons introduced to the American lexicon), whenever she was not involved in filming--either providing rifle cover for Martin or performing her own star turn in front of the camera, Osa was hunting and fishing to provide meat for the entire entourage." - May Zeiss Stange "For bravery and steadiness and endurance, Osa is the equal of any man I ever saw. She is a woman through and through. There is nothing 'mannish' about her. Yet as a comrade in the wilderness she is better than any man I ever saw." -- Martin Johnson.

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 additional photos and personal letters from the Johnsons to friends and family. Osa Johnson's memoir details her adventures alongside her husband Martin, an explorer and pioneering photographer. These two kids from Kansas sailed to Borneo, Kenya, and the Congo in the early part of the 20th century, where, with Martin holding the camera and Osa wielding the gun, they documented the indigenous people and wildlife they encountered in groundbreaking films such as "Among the Cannibals of the South Pacific" (1918) and "Simba" (1928). Osa's engaging and exciting text is complemented by scores of the dramatic black-and-white photos that made the couple famous. After Martin's death in 1937, Osa continued their work alone, I Married Adventure was first published in 1940 and became the bestselling nonfiction book of that year.

Recounts the adventures of a husband-and-wife team who spent more than twenty years on explorations and photography safaris of Africa and the South Seas and made their fascinating finding known to Americans

Mrs. Johnson relates and exclaims about her final adventures with her famed explorer husband, Martin, on a trip into the primitive fastnesses of North Borneo. She became the first woman to fly over the untamed jungles of Borneo, visited headhunters who had never seen a white woman, captured the largest python ever in the area, and many similar notable firsts.

Dychtivý zájem čtenářské veřejnosti vynutil si v několika týdnech nové vydání světově proslulého cestopisu Osy Johnsonové, vdovy po proslulém Martinu Johnsonovi, s nímž společně nejednou udivila svět odvážnými a nebezpečnými výpravami. Popularitu této knize získala zejména válka, vedená v končinách, které cestovatelka popisuje, a není divu, že tento cestopis vedl za války po měsíce listinu t. zv. bestsellers, t. j. nejprodávanějších a nejúspěšnějších knih v USA. Cestopis Osy Johnsonové byl napsán teprve po smrti jejího manžela, avšak je věnován popisu ještě společné cesty, kterou tento proslulý cestovatelský pár podnikl půl roku po sňatku do Jižních moří, s úmyslem zachytit filmovou kamerou život lidojedů. Český čtenář podívá se tak okouzlen do končin, o nichž opravdu bude jen slýchat a s povděkem se pohrouží do vyprávění o světě, kde život pulsuje ve svých nejpřírodnějších a nejprimitivnějších formách. 48 stran křídových příloh. 2. vydání