Johnson, Osa Leighty (1894-1953) I Married Adventure, Signed and Inscribed Copy.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1940.
Third impression, signed and inscribed by Johnson on ffep, "To Mrs. David Lowenthal with best African wishes, Osa Johnson," the recipient of this volume, Jane Mary Alice Lamberty, was a geographer and scholar who worked at the American Geographical Society, her husband, David Lowenthal (1923-2018) was a world-renowned American historian, geographer, and student of human culture; large octavo, illustrated throughout, bound in publisher's zebra-patterned cloth, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.
With humble origins in Kansas, Osa Johnson went on to travel the world with her husband, living in Africa for most of the 1920s. They documented their adventures in film, and pioneered the first wildlife series to be aired on American television, Osa Johnson's Big Game Hunt.I Married Adventure was the bestselling non-fiction book of 1940.
