The Soul of a Child (Signed)

Edwin Bjorkman

Macmillan, 1922

[Interesting Provenance] Association copy, inscribed by Edwin Bjorkman to Freeman Tilden on front end page. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. 321 p., 19 cm. *Autographed by author.*

Edwin August Bjorkman was a journalist, literary critic, and translator. He attended South-End Higher Latin School in Stockholm and worked as a clerk, journalist, and actor from 1881 to 1891. He was a founder of the Swedish Wholesale Clerk's Association and a member of the Lindberg Drama Company and Swedish Royal Theater Company in 1889-91. During World War I, Bjorkman served in Sweden with the British Department of Information (1915–17) and as Director of the Scandinavian Bureau of the American Committee on Public Information (1918–19). In 1919 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by the Danish government in recognition of his wartime service. In 1920–21 he served as assistant director of the League of Nations News Bureau. For three years he was a lecturer in modern Scandinavian drama at Yale University. Bjorkman's novels, essays, poetry, and literary criticism reflect his concern with individual and collective freedom, civil rights, and the advancement of civilization. 

Freeman Tilden is known as the Father of Heritage Interpretation and lived to be 97 years old. Tilden was the first author to ever provide a definition for the field of interpretation: "An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information." He's famous for writing the book Interpreting Our Heritage in 1957. In this book he laid down the principles and theories of park interpretation that would inspire interpreters across the world for future generations to come.