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12 mar 2020 · Amy Johnson (1903 – 1941) British pilot. Johnson was the first women to fly solo from England to Australia, a feat she completed in 1930. She subsequently completed many path-breaking flights such as England to Tokyo via Siberia and England to New York.
Britain’s most famous aviatrix, Amy Johnson, was born 1 July 1903, in Hull, Yorkshire where she lived until she went to Sheffield University in 1923 to complete a BA in Economics. Following graduation, she moved to London, working as a secretary to a solicitor where she also became interested in flying.
3 mar 2023 · Here are 15 of the most famous explorers during the Age of Exploration, before and after. 1. Marco Polo (1254-1324) A Venetian merchant and adventurer, Marco Polo travelled along the Silk Road from Europe to Asia between 1271 and 1295.
Martin Elmer Johnson (ur. 9 października 1884, zm. 13 stycznia 1937) i jego żona Osa Helen Johnson (nazwisko panieńskie Leighty, ur. 14 marca 1894, zm. 7 stycznia 1953) – amerykańscy poszukiwacze przygód i twórcy filmów dokumentalnych.
Osa Johnson (born March 14, 1894, Chanute, Kansas, U.S.—died January 7, 1953, New York, New York) was an American explorer, filmmaker, and writer who, with her husband, made a highly popular series of films featuring mostly African and South Sea tribal groups and wildlife.
Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands.
Meet Martin and Osa Johnson. From 1917 to 1936, Martin and Osa Johnson set up camp in some of the most remote areas of the world and provided an unmatched photographic record of the wildernesses of Kenya, the Congo, British North Borneo and the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands.
