"I Go By Sea, I Go By Land" 1941 TRAVERS, P.L.

Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny.

[233] pp.

Harper & Brothers

First Edition

1941

8 1/4" x 6"

w/ jacket design and drawings by Gertrude Hermes

VG/ VG

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First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. At the outbreak of World War II, Pamela (P.L.) Travers left England for America at the request of the British Ministry of Education. I Go By Sea, I Go By Land is an account of this evacuation to the United States told from the point of view of Sabrina, a dislocated eleven-year-old girl who keeps a diary of the adventure. Sabrina and her nine-year-old brother James are accompanied on this journey by a family friend named Pel and her baby Romulus. The book was first published in 1941 while Travers was still abroad and, as reported by her biographer Valery Lawson, intensely homesick; a homesickness expressed in the words of Pel: It's the earth I shall miss, quite apart from human relationships. It is necessary to me. I feel that my body is made of the woods and rivers.