Excerpt from Willard Straight in the Orient: With Illustrations From His Sketch-Books My own acquaintance with Willard Straight began about a year before the entrance of America into the world war, when I was associated with him in one of the citizens' movements for preparedness. All who came in close contact with him cheri'shed for him both admiration and affection, and I was like the rest. Such an attachment naturally carried with it a lively interest in his career - a career which was known to have been charged with romance but which, one felt certain, held far more of the picturesque and exciting, of large vision, high idealism and tireless energy behind them, than had ever yet been told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.