I was just fooling around on eBay and saw 2 copies of "I Married Adventure", the autobiography of Osa & Martin Johnson, for sale (current bids $7). The item numbers are 1578708599 & 1578730936. This is a great book with lots of great old photos.

I had the chance to visit their museum at some small town in Kansas years ago. It was great, I'd like to go back.

Her books are awesome I have some signed ones of hers and her husband Matrin Johnson books.Osa was one heck of a woman she loved to hunt and was very pretty.She was crippled after their plane crashed and killed her husband.

"Four Years in Paradise" by Osa is also very good.





Be sure to check out the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum web site:

http://www.safarimuseum.com/

Their books and films are available for purchase.

-Bob F.

This is fantastic, thanks for the link.

I wish I could find a girl like Osa Johnson!

Osa & Martin Johnson
George Eastman House
Still Photograph Archive

A fantastic collection of their photos. The links to these pages are kind of hard to find from the site's home page so I have listed the pages individually. Note: There are about 50 pages of photos per each listed link below so be sure to use the Next and Previous buttons to see them all.

http://www.geh.org/ar/strip36/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip37/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip38/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip39/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip40/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip41/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00001.html
http://www.geh.org/ar/strip42/htmlsrc/johnson_sld00009.html

These links will take you to Thumbnail views. Click on each photo to see the full size image.

The links to these pages can be found at: http://www.geh.org/conversion-qc.html Scroll down and look for "Osa and Martin Johnson".

Home page of the George Eastman House - Photography Collections Online: http://www.geh.org/

Yep, I bet Osa was one hell of a gal!!! I gave two of her books to a friend of mine's two teenage daughters (15 and 18) for Christmas last year. They really enjoyed them and each read both of the books. ("I Married Adventure" and "Four Years in Paradise") After they had read the books, they each told me that they were really impressed that a woman from the 1920s and 1930s had done the things that Osa did.

-Bob F.


Osa Johnson with Winchester Model 1895 rifle in .405 Winchester.
(The description and list of their rifles is given in "I Married Adventure".)

There is a great article on these folks in "Sporting Classics", Jan-Feb 2006 edition. Intriguing people to say the least.

I have trouble with the Johnsons. They goaded dangerous game into charging so he could get "action" photos of her killing them, then they returned to the States and railed against sport hunting. Little Oso was especially bad about this. I must admit her (and his) stuff made interesting reading but if they were alive today they would not have good things to say about people like us.

Bill Quimby

I think they might have liked Tim Treadwells Grizzley Man.It seems her husband like to set her in the face of danger.She out flew,out shot and had way more woodmanship than him.The Johnson wanted to protect the wildlife of Africa from over use both poaching and over hunting.I think she wore the pants when it came to hunting she was always saving him.I have her book signed.I think you can buy her movie I married Adventure on that site .I think she was an awesome woman.

... an awesome hypocrite. George Eastman, their patron of Kodak fame, was a trophy hunter of some note, and they assisted and accompanied him (follow the money). She then went on speaking tours condemning trophy hunting.

Bill Quimby

My goodness, Bill. I never knew that they were against trophy hunting. It has been many years since I read her .. 'I Married Adventure' .. and in fact gave my last copy away to a great amigo .. I have a gun show on the weekend and there is a chap there with all kinds of funky books so I'll see what I can pick up .. And by the way .. aren't you the chap that whacked that big fancy lion some years ago and wrote it up in S.C. I. ? A very impressive lion !

Dgr16:

Yep, that was my lion. I shot it in Zambia while hunting with C.J. McElroy. I was SCI's director of publications from 1983 to 1999, which meant I was also editor of Safari Magazine, Safari Times, Safari Times Africa, and the SCI Record Books. Since I retired in 1999 I have written 10 books, the latest being "Wind In My Face" with Hubert Thummler and "The History of SCI." My biggest project to date was "Royal Quest," on the hunting feats of Prince Abdorreza of Iran.

Bill Quimby

Yo ! Where can a person find these books ? I remember very well your writing in/for S.C.I. Are any of these books on your personal hunting ?

Scruffy:

No. None is about my own hunting. I've hunted on six continents, but the feats of the people I write for/about make me look like a Saturday afternoon plinker. I also make more money for writing under contract for others than I would from the royalties from my own book.

Safari Press is selling these books that I wrote: "Yoshi," "The Heck With It, I'm Going Hunting," "Royal Quest," and "Wind In My Face." Two more, "Obsessed!" and "Get On Up The Road" are due out by the next SCI convention.

SCI is selling "The History of SCI."

Trophy Room Books published three more of my books but I ghost wrote them for another hunter and it is bad form to say who it was. Safari Press has another book by the same “author†but I wrote it many years ago.

Bill Quimby