Martin and Osa in the New Hebrides, now Vanuatu, 1917. “If you go, I’m going with you, Martin Johnson. That’s what I came for and that’s how it’s going to be – the whole way. The whole way.” – Osa Johnson Osa and Kalowatt, a gray gibbon youngster. “Kalowatt, our ape, is the only aggressive one at Lake Paradise. . . she is constantly chasing baboons away from camp.” – Martin Johnson, personal letter, 1925 A male leopard at the entrance of a cave trying to decide whether to attack or retreat. “Our forests are full of elephants and rhino and buffalo and leopards and hyena and a dozen varieties of bushbuck, the fine stately Greater Kudo, and baboons in herds of thousands, the forests are constantly ringing with their trumpets and grunts and cries. Every evening they come out on the lake shore, they come in our gardens and eat our vegetables, and leopards have even been on top of our house. But we never shoot, for the past two years we have not fired a gun at Lake Paradise. We have proven that the game will leave us alone if we leave it alone. . . .” – Martin Johnson, personal letter, 1925 Giraffe on the Northern Frontier “We have a most interesting and beautiful permanent camp up here, but we never remain long. .we go out on safari with camels to the Ndoto mountains, The Mathews range, Horr valley and to the waterholes on the Kaisoot desert, then we return. .develop the films and then go right out again. . .it is a strenuous life but chuck full of thrills and excitement. I know that no big game hunter ever has the fun of shooting game that we have in photographing them.” – Martin Johnson, letter to Explorers Club, 1926 Martin considered this dynamic photograph to be one of his best. “In order to obtain a really complete pictorial history of the lion, it became apparent that we must photograph his nocturnal as well as his daylight habits. Fortunately, Martin had experimented at length and successfully with night camera work and knew all the mechanical requirements. Contrary to his usual procedure, however, of rigging up the flashlights and cameras and letting the mechanical devices do the work, he decided that he would probably have better results with the lion if we stationed ourselves in our car and he operated the camera himself.” – Osa Johnson
✔ Author(s): Osa Johnson,Kelly Enright,Former Sen Nancy Landon Kassebaum,F. Trubee Davis
✔ Title: I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
✔ Rating : 4.6 out of 5 base on (55 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 156836587X
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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