Kansans just had to get out and see it: Colorado author brings forgotten travelers to life
Date of Review:
Nov.29.2011
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Ted Holteen
Source:
The Durango Herald
Vail historian Kelly Enright re-introduces the couple that time forgot in her new book, Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure. There must be something about Kansas that inspires wanderlust: Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower and Buffalo Bill Cody are just a few Kansans who logged hundreds of thousands of miles after breaking free of the Sunflower State, and so it was for Osa and Martin.
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“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
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—Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
About Kelly
Kelly Enright is the author of The Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the American Imagination, Osa & Martin: For the Love of Adventure, and Rhinoceros. Her work, which has appeared in National Geographic,Environmental History, Society & Animals,...
Causes Kelly Enright Supports
Martin & Osa Johnson Safari Museum
Wildlife Conservation Society