Johnson, Osa 1894-1953
Overview
| Works: | 126 works in 355 publications in 10 languages and 4,961 library holdings |
|---|---|
| Genres: | Biographies Documentary films Juvenile works Fiction True adventure stories Travel writing Folklore Anecdotes Travelogues (Motion pictures) Nonfiction films |
| Roles: | Author, Interviewee, Production personnel, Director, Photographer, Other, Creator |
| Classifications: | TR140.J63, 923.9 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Osa Johnson
- I married adventure : the lives and adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson by Osa Johnson( Book )
- Four years in paradise by Osa Johnson( Book )
- They married adventure : the wandering lives of Martin and Osa Johnson by Pascal James Imperato( Book )
- Last adventure : the Martin Johnsons in Borneo by Osa Johnson( Book )
- Osa and Martin : for the love of adventure by Kelly Enright( )
- I married adventure : the lives of Martin and Osa Johnson by Osa Johnson( Book )
- Across the world with the Johnsons : visual culture and American empire in the twentieth century by Prue Ahrens( Book )
- My love and I together : the stories of six famous marriages by Aylesa Forsee( Book )
- From Kansas to cannibals : the story of Osa Johnson by Suzanne Middendorf Arruda( Book )
- La beauté du monde : roman by Michel Le Bris( Book )
- Across the World with the Johnsons : Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century by Lamont Lindstrom( )
- Danger trails in Africa by Martin Johnson( Book )
- Safari; a short travelogue of the adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson by Mariam L Mih( Book )
- I married adventure by Osa Johnson( Book )
- Xiang yue re dai cong lin : yi dui Meiguo fu fu de li xian sheng ya by Chenghu Zhang( Book )
- Wait-a-bit news( )
- Bride in the Solomons by Osa Johnson( Book )
- Sunflower journeys( Visual )
- Johnson Safari wait-a-bit news( )
- Spirit of Borneo : Martin and Osa Johnson's journey 1920 & 1935 by James Sarda( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Osa Johnson
Bride in the Solomons by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
27 editions published between 1944 and 1948 in English and held by 431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An autobiography set in the Solomon Islands
27 editions published between 1944 and 1948 in English and held by 431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An autobiography set in the Solomon Islands
Simba(
Visual
)
10 editions published between 1928 and 2015 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
They were an unlikely pair to become international celebrities and America's foremost filmmaker-explorers. Martin Johnson first met the 16-year-old Osa Leighty in the small town of Chanute, Kansas while presenting lantern slides from his Snark voyage with Jack London. One month later they became husband and wife - launching a partnership that would take them around the world. Osa described their lives together in the title of her memoirs - I Married Adventure. Journeying to remote and exotic regions, Martin and Osa Johnson produced, wrote and photographed films celebrating the natural wonder and native tribes of Africa, Asia and the South Seas. For SIMBA, they forded crocodile-infested rivers, braved stampeding elephants and stared down angry rhinos in order to film lions in their natural habitat, the veldt. Killing only for food, self protection or scientific study, the Johnson's became two of Africa's first conservationists. It was Martin and Osa's films that directly influenced Frederick O'Brien to leave for the Pacific and write White Shadows in the South Seas. It was the memory of the lions in SIMBA on which Akira Kurosawa based Toshiro Mifune's character in RASHOMON. It can hardly be realized today the enormous level of their popularity and the magnitude of their films and lectures on the world in the 1920s through the 1950s. SIMBA alone made an astounding $2 million dollars around the world. Although some of SIMBA's intertitles have dated, the Johnsons' camerawork still astonishes with some of the most spectacular images ever of African wildlife. The remarkable portraits of Kenyan tribes are also an invaluable record of that lost world - and the score (using traditional Kenyan melodies) by James Makubuya is just as amazing. Today, the restored SIMBA can be seen as the highlight of the Johnsons' career and a dazzling testimonial to the beauty of the "dark continent."
10 editions published between 1928 and 2015 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
They were an unlikely pair to become international celebrities and America's foremost filmmaker-explorers. Martin Johnson first met the 16-year-old Osa Leighty in the small town of Chanute, Kansas while presenting lantern slides from his Snark voyage with Jack London. One month later they became husband and wife - launching a partnership that would take them around the world. Osa described their lives together in the title of her memoirs - I Married Adventure. Journeying to remote and exotic regions, Martin and Osa Johnson produced, wrote and photographed films celebrating the natural wonder and native tribes of Africa, Asia and the South Seas. For SIMBA, they forded crocodile-infested rivers, braved stampeding elephants and stared down angry rhinos in order to film lions in their natural habitat, the veldt. Killing only for food, self protection or scientific study, the Johnson's became two of Africa's first conservationists. It was Martin and Osa's films that directly influenced Frederick O'Brien to leave for the Pacific and write White Shadows in the South Seas. It was the memory of the lions in SIMBA on which Akira Kurosawa based Toshiro Mifune's character in RASHOMON. It can hardly be realized today the enormous level of their popularity and the magnitude of their films and lectures on the world in the 1920s through the 1950s. SIMBA alone made an astounding $2 million dollars around the world. Although some of SIMBA's intertitles have dated, the Johnsons' camerawork still astonishes with some of the most spectacular images ever of African wildlife. The remarkable portraits of Kenyan tribes are also an invaluable record of that lost world - and the score (using traditional Kenyan melodies) by James Makubuya is just as amazing. Today, the restored SIMBA can be seen as the highlight of the Johnsons' career and a dazzling testimonial to the beauty of the "dark continent."
I married adventure : the lives of Martin and Osa Johnson by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
10 editions published between 1940 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 95 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it's a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure
10 editions published between 1940 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 95 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it's a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure
I married adventure : the lives and adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson by
Osa Johnson(
)
15 editions published between 1940 and 1989 in English and French and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The exciting lives of the husband and wife team -- globetrotters, adventurers and wildlife photographers
15 editions published between 1940 and 1989 in English and French and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The exciting lives of the husband and wife team -- globetrotters, adventurers and wildlife photographers
Jungle babies by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
8 editions published between 1930 and 1937 in English and French and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author reveals the comic perplexities as well as the terrors of young animals in the wild
8 editions published between 1930 and 1937 in English and French and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author reveals the comic perplexities as well as the terrors of young animals in the wild
Osa Johnson's jungle friends by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1939 in English and Undetermined and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1939 in English and Undetermined and held by 53 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tarnish, the true story of a lion cub by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
I married adventure by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
28 editions published between 1940 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published between 1940 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Exploring with Martin and Osa Johnson by
Kenhelm W Stott(
Book
)
2 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Martin and Osa Johnson's Simba(
Visual
)
3 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in English and held by 40 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Records Martin and Osa Johnson's expedition to East Africa, 1923-1928, the chief purpose of which was to capture on film the rapidly disappearing African wildlife as well as East African peoples and their customs. Includes footage of elephants, giraffes and lions
3 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in English and held by 40 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Records Martin and Osa Johnson's expedition to East Africa, 1923-1928, the chief purpose of which was to capture on film the rapidly disappearing African wildlife as well as East African peoples and their customs. Includes footage of elephants, giraffes and lions
Last adventure : the Martin Johnsons in Borneo by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
7 editions published between 1966 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Describes a year's exploration up North Borneo's Kinabatangan River by junk, raft and native dugout, in 1936
7 editions published between 1966 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 38 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Describes a year's exploration up North Borneo's Kinabatangan River by junk, raft and native dugout, in 1936
Four years in paradise by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
15 editions published between 1941 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The location is in the uplands of Kenya Colony, East Africa
15 editions published between 1941 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The location is in the uplands of Kenya Colony, East Africa
Jungle friends by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
10 editions published between 1941 and 1959 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published between 1941 and 1959 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pantaloons; adventures of a baby elephant by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1941 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1941 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Congorilla : adventures among the big apes and little people of Central Africa(
Visual
)
6 editions published between 1932 and 2015 in English and held by 18 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Johnsons, naturalists and explorers, journey across Africa in two small airplanes, encountering and filming gorillas and the Negrillos and other native inhabitants
6 editions published between 1932 and 2015 in English and held by 18 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Johnsons, naturalists and explorers, journey across Africa in two small airplanes, encountering and filming gorillas and the Negrillos and other native inhabitants
Borneo(
Visual
)
12 editions published between 1982 and 2015 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The last documentary by Martin and Osa Johnson, naturalists and explorers; features their last trip to Borneo, their exploration of the land, and their encounters with the native population and wildlife
12 editions published between 1982 and 2015 in English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The last documentary by Martin and Osa Johnson, naturalists and explorers; features their last trip to Borneo, their exploration of the land, and their encounters with the native population and wildlife
Jungle pets by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1932 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1932 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
I married adventure(
Visual
)
7 editions published between 1940 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The narration covers Osa Johnson's memoirs of the Osa and Martin Johnson explorations of Africa and their photography of native people and animals. Describes a failed trip to Borneo that the Johnsons successfully made up for 20 years later
7 editions published between 1940 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The narration covers Osa Johnson's memoirs of the Osa and Martin Johnson explorations of Africa and their photography of native people and animals. Describes a failed trip to Borneo that the Johnsons successfully made up for 20 years later
Baboona(
Visual
)
8 editions published between 1935 and 2015 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Johnsons, naturalists and explorers, journey across Africa in two small airplanes, encountering and filming many forms of native wildlife, especially a large population of baboons
8 editions published between 1935 and 2015 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Johnsons, naturalists and explorers, journey across Africa in two small airplanes, encountering and filming many forms of native wildlife, especially a large population of baboons
Snowball; adventures of a young gorilla by
Osa Johnson(
Book
)
1 edition published in 1942 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1942 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Johnson, Martin 1884-1937 Interviewee Production personnel Director Author Photographer Narrator
- Imperato, Pascal James Author
- Imperato, Eleanor M. Author
- Enright, Kelly Author
- Lindstrom, Lamont 1953- Author
- Paisley, Fiona
- Ahrens, Prue Author
- Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
- Churchill, Winston 1874-1965
- Wallace, DeWitt 1889-1981
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Associated Subjects
Adventure and adventurers Africa Africa, East Animals Autobiographical fiction, French Borneo Central Africa Churchill, Winston, Curie, Marie, Curie, Pierre, Elephants Ethnology Explorers Fontanne, Lynn Gorilla Imperialism in motion pictures Johnson, Martin, Johnson, Osa, Jungle animals Kenya Kipsigis (African people) Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, Lindbergh, Charles A.--(Charles Augustus), Lion Lunt, Alfred Malaysia--Sabah Mammals Marriage Naturalists Nature photography Photographers Photography of animals Pygmies Solomon Islands Sub-Saharan Africa Tanzania Travel Travelers Travelogues (Motion pictures) United States Wallace, DeWitt, Wallace, Lila Acheson, Wild animals as pets Wildlife cinematography Wildlife photographers Women cinematographers Women explorers Women photographers Zoologists Zoology
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Alternative Names
Johnson, Martin 1894-1953 Mrs
Johnson, Martin, Mrs., 1894-1953
Johnson, Mrs Martin
Johnson, Osa H. 1894-1953
Johnson, Osa Helen
Johnson, Osa Helen 1894-1953
Johnson, Osa Helen Leighty
Johnson, Osa Helen Leighty 1894-1953
Ma ding fu ren 1894-1953
Mading furen 1894-1953
Madingfuren 1894-1953
Mrs Martin Johnson
Osa Johnson 1894-1953
Osa Johnson Amerikaans auteur (1894-1953)
Osa Johnson amerikanische Abenteurerin und Dokumentarfilmerin
Osa Johnson author
Osa Johnson aventurera, naturalista y fotógrafa estadounidense
Osa Johnson údar
اوسا جونسون
ジョンソン, オサ
馬丁夫人 1894-1953
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