Johnson, Osa 1894-1953

Bride in the Solomons by Osa Johnson( Book )

25 editions published between 1944 and 1948 in English and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An autobiography set in the Solomon Islands

I married adventure : the lives and adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson by Osa Johnson( Book )

43 editions published between 1940 and 2018 in 8 languages and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The exciting lives of the husband and wife team -- globetrotters, adventurers and wildlife photographers

Simba( Visual )

10 editions published between 1928 and 2015 in English and held by 154 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."

Four years in paradise by Osa Johnson( Book )

15 editions published between 1941 and 1952 in 3 languages and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The location is in the uplands of Kenya Colony, East Africa

Jungle babies by Osa Johnson( Book )

8 editions published between 1930 and 1937 in English and French and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Osa Johnson's jungle friends by Osa Johnson( Book )

3 editions published in 1939 in English and Undetermined and held by 52 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

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

Martin and Osa Johnson's Simba( Visual )

2 editions published in 1992 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 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes a year's exploration up North Borneo's Kinabatangan River by junk, raft and native dugout, in 1936