The Johnsons returned to Malekula in 1919 to film the Big Nambas once again, this time with an armed escort. The footage they got there inspired the feature film Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Seas (1918). The intervention of a British gunboat helped them escape. Once there, the chief was not going to let them leave. The highlight of the trip was a brief, but harrowing, encounter with a tribe called the Big Nambas of northern Malekula. In 1917, Martin and Osa departed on a nine-month trip through the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands. Martin published his book Through the South Seas With Jack London in 1913. They were married in May 1910 in Independence and spent the next seven years touring with Martin's travelogue in the US and Europe. He met Osa Leighty while showing his travelogues at the theatre in Osa's hometown of Chanute, Kansas, where she was singing. Later, he toured the United States displaying photographs and artifacts collected on the voyage. Johnson wrote to London begging to be invited and received a telegraph simply asking if he could cook, to which Johnson replied: "Just try me." On the Snark, which sailed around the world from 1907 to 1909, Johnson had a variety of responsibilities. On his way back to Kansas, Martin Johnson read of Jack London’s plans to travel the world in a 45-foot boat, the Snark. His father worked as a jeweler and would bring home crates labeled with European cities like Paris and Barcelona, inspiring Martin to stowaway on a ship to Europe as a teenager. Although born in Rockford, Illinois, Martin Johnson grew up in the Kansas towns of Lincoln and Independence.
Osa Leighty was born March 14, 1894, and raised in Chanute, Kansas. Martin Elmer Johnson was born on October 9, 1884. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands. 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. In the first half of the 20th century the couple captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Martin Elmer Johnson (Octo– January 13, 1937) and Osa Helen Johnson ( née Leighty, Ma– January 7, 1953) were married American adventurers and documentary filmmakers.
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