White, E.B <br/><br/>
The points of my compass; :  letters from the East, the West, the North, the South. / 
by E.B.White. 
 - New York ;  Evanston :  Harper & Row,  1962. 
 - xiv, 240 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> With hard-and supercover 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>White, E. B. 1899-1985  (Elwyn Brooks) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, American--Correspondence--20th century