It's her memoir of being 25 in 1950 and leaving New York City to sail around the world with her six year old son. It's fabulous.
I think she got the title from Yeats. According to Pound / Cummings: the correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E.Cummings byBarry Ahearn, “Give me the world if Thou wilt, but grant me an asylum for my affections,” is an epigraph Yeats added to The Wanderings of Oisin for his 1895 Poems. Yeats attributed the statement to the Czech painter Josef Tulka, but, as Richard J. Finneran notes, Yeats may have invented it.
I know "Give me" sounds quite grabby. But I promise, I'm trying to earn my way.
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