The points of my compass
by White, E. B. frey50
Published by : Harper & Row, Publishers (New York) , 1962 Physical details: 240 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 814 Sid John Chancellor makes me cry | 814 Tho Citizen Thoreau | 814 Vid Reflections upon a sinking ship | 814 Whi The points of my compass | 814.08 Ess Essays of American Essayists | 814.08 Lew Of other worlds | 814.52 Byn Prose Pieces |
Foreword -- Eye of Edna -- Slight sound at evening -- Home-coming -- Bedfellows -- Ring of time -- Coon tree -- Sootfall and fallout -- Shape of the U.N. -- Rock dove -- Report in spring -- Will Strunk -- Good-bye to 48th street -- Report in winter -- Motorcar -- Railroad -- Unity -- Shape of television -- Years of wonder.
A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). Author writes of coons, and how a swallow builds a nest, and the way a Maine fire department attends a fire, and also of fallout, disarmament and the United Nations.