I bought a very interesting book. It's called 'I married Adventure' by Osa Johnson and it relates the biography of the first explorers and documentary makers in the South Seas and Africa, at the beginning of the 20th century. It's the story of the Johnson couple, Osa and Martin, and their mindblogging adventures in cannibal lands, unexplored places where they were the first white people locals saw. It's truly amazing to read how they organised the expeditions, how this delicate woman went through the difficulties of exploring rough lands, with rough insects, huge and dangerous beasts, diseases, communication... Don't forget we are talking the beginning of 1900s.
They were from Kansas and together filmed and took thousands of photographs of remote and unheard lands. They exchanged gifts with cannibals, learnt aboriginal languages, learnt how to use rifles and hunt for survival.
All is told with plenty of humour in this remarkable book. It comes with some examples of the pictures they took for us to have an approximate idea of how things looked and how, for example, a human head looks like standing on a pole by a fire!
You can also see more photos on their Museum webpage on the Exhibits link. Really cool couple. Above all, brave and ahead of their time.
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