The Adventurers: books of adventure and exploration View fullsize I Married Adventure, by Osa Johnson (Mrs. Martin Johnson). 1940. Mrs. Johnson writes of the years she and her husband spent in Africa and the south seas. View fullsize Beryl Marham | West with the Night 1942. A woman writes about her adventures as a bush pilot in Africa. View fullsize Richard Evelyn Byrd. Discovery. The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. View fullsize → Alone by Richard E. Byrd 1938