I Married Adventure

Author : Osa Johnson
Publisher : Vertical Inc
ISBN 13 : 1568366000
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married Adventure written by Osa Johnson and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a ‘round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene’s big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it’s a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.

Author : Luci Swindoll
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418515833
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married Adventure written by Luci Swindoll and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2003-01-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fun and creative full-color jewel filled with photos and artistic sketches, Luci Swindoll gives the reader a fascinating journey through a life well lived, one in which she purposefully chose to "marry" adventure. The classic, artful design and intriguing stories highlight Luci's unique insight and perspective that transform otherwise regular days and occurrences to experiences worth living. With the challenge to stop saying "if only" and "why me" and start asking "what if" and "why not," Luci encourages everyone to lead truly adventurous lives that yield countless blessings, lessons and inspiration. Never before has anyone modeled the joy and adventures of the journey with such clarity and insight. Readers will be drawn to I Married Adventure as it is Luci's first full-length book in over 10 years and is a personal tour of her unique approach to squeezing the most out of a life led by Christ.

Author : Pascal James Imperato
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813526959
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Married Adventure written by Pascal James Imperato and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Osa Johnson's ghostwritten autobiography, I Married Adventure, became a national bestseller. The 1939 film version was billed as "the story of World Exploration's First Lady, whose indomitable daring would be stayed by neither snarling lion nor crouching leopard, tropic tempest nor savage tribesman " Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of self-reliance. Probing beneath the glamor of the Johnsons' public image, Pascal and Eleanor Imperato explore the more human side of the couple's lives--and ways the Johnsons shaped, for better and for worse, America's vision of Africa. Drawing on many years of research, access to a wealth of letters and archives, interviews with many who worked closely with the Johnsons, and their own deep knowledge of Africa, the authors present a fascinating and intimate portrait of this intrepid couple.

Author : Osa Johnson
Publisher : Sisters of the Hunt
ISBN 13 : 9780811731300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Years in Paradise written by Osa Johnson and published by Sisters of the Hunt. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Osa, too, these years, from 1924 to 1927, were an especially significant period. After seven years of touring the vaudeville circuit, and seven more of exploring the South Seas and Borneo with occasional lecture tours worked in stateside to raise more capital, the Johnsons' complex at Lake Paradise was the first relatively permanent home the coup had had since that little flat they started out in back in Independence. Osa not only brought all her Kansas skills to bear on turning her Kenya house into a home, she also was largely responsible for managing the roughly two hundred "boys" needed to build the place and keep it running, as well as for organizing the several safaris the Johnsons undertook in the course of those years. When they were on safari (a term which incidentally, the Johnsons introduced to the American lexicon), whenever she was not involved in filming--either providing rifle cover for Martin or performing her own star turn in front of the camera, Osa was hunting and fishing to provide meat for the entire entourage." - May Zeiss Stange "For bravery and steadiness and endurance, Osa is the equal of any man I ever saw. She is a woman through and through. There is nothing 'mannish' about her. Yet as a comrade in the wilderness she is better than any man I ever saw." -- Martin Johnson.

Author : Kirsten Buxton
Publisher : Living Miracles Publications
ISBN 13 : 1942253265
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married a Mystic written by Kirsten Buxton and published by Living Miracles Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Married a Mystic—one woman’s leap of faith to discover a love that never ends. It was a surprise to gutsy, Kirsten Buxton when Jesus appeared to her, announcing he would be her guide. At twenty-seven years of age, a serious bike accident had left her physically, psychologically, and emotionally devastated, with no control over her life. Having had no previous relationship with Jesus, she began studying A Course in Miracles, and developing trust in the Spirit within. Miraculously, world-renowned teacher of A Course in Miracles, David Hoffmeister, visited her hometown. Jesus told Kirsten to trust this man completely in order to experience a relationship like no other. Her courageous acceptance of this guidance opened her heart and mind in ways she never could have imagined. Throughout this diary of radical self-inquiry, Kirsten candidly exposes her fears, projections, and private thoughts whilst on an epic adventure of holy relationship with a tirelessly happy mystic! A must read for those seeking to intimately apply non-dual spiritual teachings in every aspect of daily experience: in the bedroom, the bathroom, and even the supermarket. This profound and often humorous account is literally a ‘how-to’ guide for awakening.

Author : Kelly Enright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762768347
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Osa and Martin written by Kelly Enright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of the legendary couple whose wildlife films transformed America’s perceptions of exotic places.

Author : Laura Beatrice Berton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120594
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married the Klondike written by Laura Beatrice Berton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married... “This is a brave book. It is a record of a woman’s courage and devotion in a hostile land. It is the story of a refined and sensitive girl who found happiness the hard way, and triumphed over conditions that would have driven most women to distraction. It is also a tribute to a husband who with hand, heart and head was outstanding in a world of worthy men. “I have read many books on the Yukon, but this is different...It is the gallant personality of the author which shines on every page, and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North.” (Robert W. Service, Preface)

Author : Katharine Ashe
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062229826
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married the Duke written by Katharine Ashe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Married the Duke begins the Prince Catchers series by Katharine Ashe, award-winning author of historical romance. Arabella Caulfield, one of three orphaned sisters, has clung to an ancient gypsy prophecy as the only way to save her family from endless heartbreak. Now she has twelve days to reach a remote French castle and fulfill her destiny: to marry a prince. Along the way, Arabella meets Lucien Westfall, decorated naval captain and the new Duke of Lycombe. She thought he was a pirate. He thought she was a governess. Two wrongs have never made such a scandalously perfect right. Readers of Regency romances and the works of Eloisa James and Lisa Kleypas will fall in love with the Prince Catchers books by Katharine Ashe.

Author : LaDonna M Smith
Publisher : LaDonna M Smith
ISBN 13 : 1450720366
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Married Satan written by LaDonna M Smith and published by LaDonna M Smith. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We had the marriage license, ceremony and my name changed but no marriage. Follow one woman's journey from a crazy marriage to atonement as she is married for 4.5 years or so she thought. Find out what happens when she filed for a divorce and yet lost to him filing for an annulment because before, during and after her HE WAS MARRIED TO SOMEONE ELS

Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408842408
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage written by Ann Patchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.