Maynard Owen Williams was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was an inveterate traveller who began travelling in his teens, explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.
In his own words a "camera-coolie and a roughneck", Williams was the Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and his reports include a description of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Maynard Williams was also an excellent photographer, and pioneered travel photography. The Maynard Owen Williams Prize for creative nonfiction at Kalamazoo College is named in his memory. Wikipedia
National Geographic, august 1926
“Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.”
in a letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic (1948)
At the Tomb of Tutankhamen http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt (1923)
from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)
