JOHNSON, Osa.
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
First Edition of I Married Adventure; Inscribed by Osa Johnson
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1940.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-2685
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First edition. Octavo, original striped cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Sally with best African wishes. Osa Johnson June 13th 41." An excellent near fine copy showing only light wear in the rare dust jacket which is heavily worn.
In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson—from Lincoln, Kansas and Chanute, Kansas, respectively—captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands. "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).
I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
$750.00
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