You've seen this book, whether you remember it or not, in every interior design magazine published in the past five years. Osa Johnson was born in raised in Kansas and as a young woman met the American photographer Martin Johnson. The two married, traveled to Africa, and created the photographic record of an entire continent that would dictate representations of Africa in Western Culture (Simba, anyone?) for the rest of the 20th century. She is nothing short of incredible.