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Summary: A waste of my time!
Review: Based on the other reveiws, I was expecting a much better time. This book dragged on. If I wasn't reading it for a book club, I would have dropped it early on. I found their attitudes towards natives condescending at best, and their treatment of the animals they professed to love, admire and respect was atrocious! "We wanted to present footage of these magnificent animals in their own habitat with their natural behaviours, so Martin stampeded them towards the camera, and Osa shot them dead after we got our good footage"
One also gets the feeling that the truly interesting parts of their lives didn't make it into this book, because the recited 'adventures' are pretty boring.
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Summary: The Best TRUE Adventure I've Ever Read
Review: I first read "I Married Adventure" when I took this book out of my local library as a student. It fascinated me. I was pleasantly surprised when I found it to still be available.Martin and Osa Johnson lived what they wrote. There is no pretense in their lives. They were true adventurers. They made a great contribution to the world of adventure. I'm sure they inspired many to further their boundaries. This is an adventure that will cause you to hold your breath while reading, wondering how they got through. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to live outside their border. It's breathtaking!
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Summary: The Best TRUE Adventure I've Ever Read
Review: I first read "I Married Adventure" when I took this book out of my local library as a student. It fascinated me. I was pleasantly surprised when I found it to still be available. Martin and Osa Johnson lived what they wrote. There is no pretense in their lives. They were true adventurers. They made a great contribution to the world of adventure. I'm sure they inspired many to further their boundaries. This is an adventure that will cause you to hold your breath while reading, wondering how they got through. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to live outside their border. It's breathtaking!
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Summary: One of the most exciting biographies I've ever read!
Review: I have read this book twice, once at age ten and again this year. It holds the attention like a riveting novel. The adventure(s) it describes seem like fiction, yet they are the stuff that kids dreams are made of. The difference is that these two people really lived them...couldn't put it down!
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Summary: So good you don't want it to end!
Review: I read my girlfriend's mother's copy in 1943 when I was ten years old. All my life I wanted a copy of that book. I discovered Amazon and received my much beloved book. You learn to love Osa and Martin Johnson. What a brave girl Osa was to follow her husband to wild Africa, to be such a great helpmate and joy. I will read and re-read this book because it is like you are on an adventure that continues on and on. You feel like you are right there taking part in their adventures. I am so thankful that this book was republished for generations to come. (The book I read in 1943 was large, hardback and the cover was black and white like Zebra skin.) The book has great photographs. I highly recommend it and rate it 5 stars! Wonderful!
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Summary: So good you don't want it to end!
Review: I read my girlfriend's mother's copy in 1943 when I was ten years old. All my life I wanted a copy of that book. I discovered Amazon and received my much beloved book. You learn to love Osa and Martin Johnson. What a brave girl Osa was to follow her husband to wild Africa, to be such a great helpmate and joy. I will read and re-read this book because it is like you are on an adventure that continues on and on. You feel like you are right there taking part in their adventures. I am so thankful that this book was republished for generations to come. (The book I read in 1943 was large, hardback and the cover was black and white like Zebra skin.) The book has great photographs. I highly recommend it and rate it 5 stars! Wonderful!
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Summary: The most spell-binding book I ever read.
Review: I read the first edition of this book in about 1947 right after I left the service. (WW2) This book covered parts of Africa, and showed pictures so fine and detailed that to this day I can still see them in my minds eye. I still recall, they had a friend in A. Blaney Percival---Game Warden. Their head man around camp was named Boculy These and many other anecdotes are still vivid in my memory after all these years. For fine reading, I couldnt recommend a better book. I eagerly await my re-print copy w5bok@txucom.net
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Summary: I married adventure
Review: I read this book as a 12 year old and have always remembered the excitment it stirred in me to live my own adventure! A very good book. The pictures are a lot of fun and the story unforgetable.
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Summary: A waste of my time!
Review: I'm thrilled to see this book still (again?)in print. It was on my parent's limited and eclectic bookshelf back in the '40s and fueled my lifelong love of adventure and travel writing. When Osa and Martin Johnson went to Africa there were no tented safari camps, complete with martinis at the end of the day's animal sightings. This was true adventure. The book's original cover was faux zebra skin and I rescued it from my mom's throwaway pile with she was breaking up their household. Still have it and always will.
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Summary: My Zebra Book!
Review: I'm thrilled to see this book still (again?)in print. It was on my parent's limited and eclectic bookshelf back in the '40s and fueled my lifelong love of adventure and travel writing. When Osa and Martin Johnson went to Africa there were no tented safari camps, complete with martinis at the end of the day's animal sightings. This was true adventure. The book's original cover was faux zebra skin and I rescued it from my mom's throwaway pile with she was breaking up their household. Still have it and always will.
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