Product Description

I Married Adventure is a Kodansha International publication.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #377404 in Books
• Published on: 1997-07-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From Amazon.com
Osa Johnson's travel adventures and explorations come across as vibrantly today as they did when they were written in 1940. They're richer now with the added perspective of history, and the added wealth of Martin Johnson's photographs of charging elephants, reposing lions, and head hunters roasting heads, marshmallow-like, over a campfire. The life the Johnsons led was nothing like the life Osa expected. From 1917 to 1937 she and Martin were visiting and filming cannibals in the New Hebrides, orangutans in Borneo, and the rich gamut of wildlife available on safari in Kenya and the Congo. Osa led a life the likes of which won't be seen again, and she tells a good story, too.

Review

"books of adventure are so numerous....[But] this one is unique. It has the human quality of a novel and the permanence of social history." -Katherine Woods, The New York Times

"Tells the whole story unaffectedly and with a simple charm that is highly engaging. It belongs on any list of Americana, for the Johnsons were as American as Davy Crockett." -Joseph Wood Krutch, The Nation

"A pleasant, forthright...exciting book." -Clifton Fadiman, The New Yorker

"It makes good reading...at this dark hour, as good an 'escape story' as you are apt to run into for some time." -Atlantic Monthly

"I MARRIED ADVENTURE is a fine book on many counts...A good travel book, a good adventure book, a good book about animals, a good book on photography, and , best of all...a good human story about two extremely likable people, told by one of them with simplicity, humor, [and] warmth." -Rose Feld, Books

"It isn't just the animal-lover who will cherish this story. Anyone who likes a thrilling tale (a true one, too) with a plucky, nervy, cheerful, and charming hero and heroine is all set. I MARRIED ADVENTURE is as rare and real as the people who made it possible."-Olga Owens, Boston Transcript

"The reader is impressed with the tremendous industriousness of these two people, their physical endurance, their patience, their understanding of animals and natives, and their love for each other....[The] old and young will enjoy this book. It is splendidly illustrated." -M.N. Baker, Library Journal

"Every page of her book is readable and exciting: the photographs are plentiful and have all the dramatic quality that we are used to in the camera work of the author and her husband." -Manchester Guardian

Ingram
Martin Johnson, the famous explorer and nature photographer who brought home stunning movies of Africa and the South Seas to eager Americans, spent more than 25 years crossing the country and the world with his cameras and his wife. Osa's colorful biography is also a wonderful love story. 94 photos, maps, index.