The Big Game Hunt featuring the films of Martin and Osa Johnson.
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Sanderson also provided the introduction for 12 episodes of the 1953 television wildlife series Osa Johnson's The Big Game Hunt a.k.a.
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In 1951 he appeared with Patty Painter on the world's first regularly scheduled colour TV series, The World is Yours. In 1948 Sanderson began appearing on American radio and television, speaking as a naturalist and displaying animals. He also killed and dissected some while in the field. He collected animals for museums and scientific institutions, and included detailed studies of their behaviors and environments. Sanderson's serious scientific work was published in scientific journals. Illustrated with Sanderson's drawings, they are accounts of his scientific expeditions, but they are addressed to a popular audience and include somewhat purple prose of the beauties of nature, as well as humorous anecdotes, some of which may be exaggerated. Sanderson published: Animal Treasure, a report of an expedition to the jungles of then- British West Africa Caribbean Treasure, an account of an expedition to Trinidad, Haiti, and Surinam, begun in late 1936 and ending in late 1938 and Living Treasure, an account of an expedition to Jamaica, British Honduras (now Belize) and the Yucatan. In the 1960s Sanderson lived in Knowlton Township in northwestern New Jersey before moving to Manhattan. Afterwards, Sanderson made New York his home and became a naturalized U.S. Sanderson conducted a number of expeditions as a teenager and young man into tropical areas in the 1920s and 1930s, gaining fame for his animal collecting as well as his popular writings on nature and travel.ĭuring World War II, Sanderson worked for British Naval Intelligence, in charge of counter-espionage against the Germans in the Caribbean, then for British Security Coordination, finally finishing out the war as a press agent in New York City. He became famous claiming to have seen an "olitiau" (a large cryptid bat) after being attacked by a creature he described as "the Granddaddy of all bats". Sanderson graduated BA Hons in zoology from Cambridge University faculty of Biology, a degree traditionally upgraded to MA (Cantab) in botany and ethnology after six years without further study. His father, who manufactured whisky professionally, was killed by a rhinoceros while assisting a documentary film crew in Kenya in 1925.Īs a teenager, Sanderson attended Eton College and at 17 years old began a yearlong trip around the world, spending most time in Asia.
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