One man's meat / [print]
E.B. White.
- first Tilbury House edition.
- Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House, (c)1997.
- xiv, 279 pages ; 24 cm.
Originally published: New York : Harper and Row, (c)1982. c1944. With new introduction.
Removal -- The summer catarrh -- Incoming basket -- Security -- Clear days -- Children's books -- Progress and change -- Salt water farm -- Sabbath morn -- Education -- A week in April -- Movies -- A Boston terrier -- The world of tomorrow -- Walden -- Hot weather -- Camp meeting -- Second World War -- First World War -- Poetry -- The flocks we watch by night -- Report -- Fro-joy -- Farm paper -- Town meeting -- A shepherd's life -- Compost -- Freedom -- The practical farmer -- Sanitation -- Motor cars -- Maine speech -- Lime -- Dog training -- The wave of the future -- A winter diary -- On a Florida Key -- The trailer park -- Spring -- My day -- Once more to the lake -- Fall -- Memorandum -- Coon hunt -- Intimations -- Songbirds -- Questionnaire -- Aunt Poo -- Book learning -- Morningtime and eveningtime -- Getting ready for a cow -- Bond rally -- A week in November -- Control -- Cold weather.
First published in 1942, One Man's Meat has been in print almost without interruption. Now these classic essays on Maine life have come home to roost with a Maine publisher. E. B. White began this collection as a series of pieces for Harper's Magazine when he left New York City and moved to a saltwater farm in Brooklin, Maine. His observations on town meetings, poultry, the weather, songbirds, compost, taxes, war, winter, and much more will resonate just as strongly today --