In 1937, he married Mary Woodward Worrall, the year after becoming a naturalised American citizen. In 1930, he came to the United States and settled in Washington, where he worked for Harris & Ewing photographers before joining National Geographic. During the late 1920s he worked in the Paris bureau of the New York Times-Wide World Photos and for the Topical Press Agency in London. He was author and photographer for seven National Geographic magazine articles and was the photographer for 11 others, on subjects that included Micronesia, Canada, and a canoe trip down the Potomac River. Edwards was a member of the Explorer's Club in New York City. The recipient, Walter Meayers "Toppy" Edwards (1908-1994), was a British-born picture editor, photographer, and writer for the National Geographic Society, who won the National Press Photographers Picture of the Year Award in 19.
This is a great association copy in the supplied Book Club dust jacket, issued in the same year.
In the meantime I have the pleasure and privilige to call above 'Mr.' my friend 'Toppy' Heinrich". Edwards with my very best wishes, from H. Signed by Author(s).įirst US edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed twice on the frontispiece recto "To Mr.
As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS). The top board is incised with a Tibetan good-luck charm cut by monks of the Tibetan Refugee Center in Darjeeling, India. Protecting the cover is a cotton sleeve, known as a pi-chu, which is encased front and back by a pair of magnolia wood boards, or lepshing. The cover is pure Bure silk, imported from India. We have bound our books in many extraordinary styles, but none so authentically exotic as Seven Years in Tibet. Six gravure plates made from photographs by the author. Seven Years in Tibet offers rare insights into Tibet's mysticism and beauty which Harrer's photogravures, produced from the original negatives, further illuminate.
He and the Dalai Lama remained lifelong friends. Harrer became the unofficial secular tutor to the Dalai Lama when His Holiness was fourteen years old. After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and travel writer Santa Rama Rau one of the grandest and most incredible adventure stories I have ever read.
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