The points of my compass
Subtitle: letters from the East, the West, the North, the South.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: xi; title: The Eye of Edna
pagenum: 3; title: A Slight Sound At Evening
pagenum: 15; title: Home-Coming
pagenum: 27; title: Bedfellows
pagenum: 37; title: The Ring Of Time
pagenum: 51; title: Coon Tree
pagenum: 61; title: Sootfall And Fallout
pagenum: 77; title: The Shape Of The U.N.
pagenum: 91; title: The Rock Dove
pagenum: 103; title: A Report In Spring
pagenum: 111; title: Will Strunk
pagenum: 115; title: Good-Bye To 48th Street
pagenum: 125; title: A Report In Winter
pagenum: 131; title: The Motorcar
pagenum: 141; title: The Railroad
pagenum: 155; title: Unity
pagenum: 175; title: The Shape Of Television
pagenum: 193; title: The Years Of Wonder
pagenum: 205