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Osa Helen Johnson was born Osa Helen Leighty on March 14, 1894, in Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of William Sherman Leighty, a railroad engineer, and Ruby Isabel Holman Leighty.
(376 Pages of Text and Photographs..Inscribed By Osa Johnson)
376 Pages of Text and Photographs..Inscribed By Osa Johnson
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(Martin and Osa Johnson were photographers , explorers, na...)
Martin and Osa Johnson were photographers , explorers, naturalists and authors. They traveled to Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo...They brought back tales of cultures far away with their films, writings and lectures. This is Osa' story of life in the Solomons on a cannibal island as newlyweds. Adventure, travel pictures of the people and land.
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The world-famous explorers, Martin and Osa Johnson, take a trip up the Nile River in this historic film, their first talkie feature. Shot in 1927 and 1928, the adventurers' third African expedition proved to be one of their most eventful. While in Tanganyika's ""lion country"", members of their crew are almost attacked by the fierce cats. And in the Solomon Islands, the Johnsons themselves are captured by a tribe of cannibals! It isn't all perilous dangers, however, as the couple take time to play golf among the wildlife. Friend and supporter George Eastman, founder of Eastman-Kodak, accompanies them on their journey. Scenes in the field were shot without sound, to which the explorers' narration was later added. Wraparound sequences filmed at a cocktail party at Martin and Osa's New York apartment, however, are the first footage of the Johnsons with synchronized sound. This fully-authorized edition of Across the World is issued in conjunction with the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum. Dedicated to preserving the legacy of these two remarkable naturalists, it has been ranked the #1 Museum in Kansas. The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum features award-winning displays of the Johnsons' lives and adventures, African cultures, and special exhibits. Educational programs are offered year-round for children and adults, with regular showings of the Johnsons' films and a large research library also available. Visit the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum while in the Johnsons' home state of Kansas. INCLUDES BONUS ""About Across The World"" Retrospective Featurette.
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“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.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Osa Johnson gives a personal touch to her stories. These animals become absolutely real in their experiences, Bong the cheetah, Bubbles, the baby hippopotamus, the mischievous chimpanzee, Teddy and Snowball the baby gorilla and many others. Both children and adults will find these stories unusually appealing.
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explorer filmmaker writer author
Osa Helen Johnson was born Osa Helen Leighty on March 14, 1894, in Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of William Sherman Leighty, a railroad engineer, and Ruby Isabel Holman Leighty.
Johnson's formal education was limited to public school in Chanute.
At the time of her marriage in 1910, Osa Johnson had never been further than thirty miles from home. She quickly accepted, however, her husband's interest in combining photography with exploration to produce travel films. For the first two years of their marriage, to raise money for their trips, they worked the vaudeville circuits; Martin gave an illustrated travelogue of his travels with Jack London while Osa demonstrated Hawaiian songs. In 1912 the Johnsons made their first trip to the South Seas, and two years later produced their first motion pictures of the cannibals and headhunters in that area. By the 1920's their interests had centered on Africa. During a number of expeditions, Martin directed the camera work while Osa maintained supplies and camp security.
In their pioneer efforts, the Johnsons used sound-recording devices and amphibious airplanes (they were both licensed pilots) to capture authentic information about primitive peoples. Museums used their films and the Johnsons showed them on their numerous lecture tours. They also produced the commercially successful films Simba, Congorilla, and Baboona. They discovered Lake Paradise, a crater lake, where they spent four years filming wildlife for the American Museum of Natural History, New York. In addition to making films, the Johnsons wrote several books: Cannibal Lands (1922), Camera Trails in Africa (1924), Lion (1929), Congorilla (1931), and Over African Jungles (1935).
On February 13, 1937, Osa was seriously injured in an airplane crash near Los Angeles, California. Her husband died, though. She recovered and later that year led the largest motion picture expedition ever undertaken through East Africa to provide footage for the Twentieth Century-Fox movie Stanley and Livingstone. She also wrote many children's books, including Jungle Babies (1930), Jungle Pete (1932), and Osa Johnson's Jungle Friends (1939), as well as magazine articles on travel and wildlife conservation. In 1940 Osa Johnson published I Married Adventure, an account of her twenty-seven years of marriage to Martin Johnson and their exploration of the world's jungles. The book was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for June 1940 and was later produced as a motion picture. She also designed authentic toy animals for the National Wildlife Federation in order to interest children in wildlife conservation. As president of Martin Johnson Pictures and of Osa Johnson Incorporated, she produced Jungles Calling (1937), I Married Adventure (1940), African Paradise (1941), and Tulagi and the Solomons (1943).
In 1941 she wrote Four Years in Paradise and three years later Bride in the Solomons. Despite a heart ailment, she continued writing and planning trips to Africa because "everything in the city is so artificial. " She died in New York City, on January 7, 1953.
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( “For Osa, too, these years, from 1924 to 1927, were an ...)
(Martin and Osa Johnson were photographers , explorers, na...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
(Osa Johnson gives a personal touch to her stories. These ...)
(376 Pages of Text and Photographs..Inscribed By Osa Johnson)
On May 15, 1910, in Independence, Kansas, Osa married Martin Johnson. On February 13, 1937, Martin Johnson died in an airplane crash near Los Angeles, California.
On April 29, 1939, Johnson married Clark H. Getts, her lecture manager. They separated on November 25, 1946, and in 1949 she was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion and resumed her first married name.