The points of my compass; : letters from the East, the West, the North, the South. / by E.B.White.

With hard-and supercover

Cont.: 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.