"I Married Adventure" 1940 JOHNSON, Osa
$250
The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson
JOHNSON, Osa
[376] pp.
J.B. Lippencott Company
1940
9 1/2" x 6 3/4"
w/ 85 aquatone illustrations
VG
I Married Adventure is a bestselling 1940 memoir by Osa Johnson, chronicling her and her husband Martin's adventures as early 20th-century explorers and pioneering wildlife photographers in places like Borneo, Kenya, and the Congo. The book, which became the bestselling nonfiction book of its year, details their groundbreaking work documenting indigenous peoples and wildlife through films and photographs, and it is illustrated with many of the dramatic black-and-white images that made the couple famous.