The Book Company: New Products - Essays & Travelogues

Where Saffron Grows (A Memoir of Losing Iran and Finding Home)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:13:30 +0000

For fans of Funny in Farsi and Born a Crime, language lovers, and anyone carving out a life in the in-between, a cross-cultural memoir—spanning Iran, France, the United States, and Switzerland—that traces one woman’s journey from exile to reinvention.

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Price: $18.99

The Yes that Changed Everything (A Memoir)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:12:29 +0000

A memoir of an ordinary midwestern mother who, after surviving the unthinkable and having her faith shaken to its core while navigating international adoption, ultimately used her grief to make a positive difference in the world.

When Nicole and Will O’Brien, quietly raisin..

Price: $18.99

Trunks & Tiaras (Journeys through life with friends, family and a Princess)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:41:24 +0000

Lady Glenconner, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret, and bestselling author of Lady in Waiting and Manners and Mischief, returns with her latest volume of memoirs, packed with stories of her travels - across the globe, and close to home.

Lady Glenconner turn..

Price: $17.99

Grandma Joy and Me (A Journey of Healing, One National Park at a Time)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:36:18 +0000

A heartrending, transformative true story following Brad Ryan and his grandmother Joy Ryan as they embark on a seven-year journey to visit every US National Park.

Raised in Appalachia, Grandma Joy lived a life shaped by constraints and hardships, while Brad grappled with the weight o..

Price: $20.00

Home Out There (A Journey)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:27:05 +0000

A memoir about leaving home to find home from the critically acclaimed poet and award-winning author of How We Fight for Our Lives.

When you are Black and queer, where in the world do you belong?

This is a question Saeed Jones carries with him, as he journeys from Sco..

Price: $29.00

The Unbreakable Self (7 Life-Changing Truths from Walking Around the World)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:25:58 +0000

Tom Turcich is the tenth person to walk around the world. At twenty-six, he stepped out his front door to walk 28,000 miles across thirty-eight countries and six continents. During his seven-year expedition, one question asserted itself with every step: what’s worth the weight?

At first, th..

Price: $32.99

More Meaningful Journeys (Further Autoethnographies of Quest and Identity Transformation)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:21:07 +0000

More Meaningful Journeys: autoethnographies of quest and identity transformation is a text that will be essential reading for students of autoethnography and qualitative inquiry across the globe. Additionally, it is expected that the book will be of interest to anybody interested in the transfo..

Price: $233.99

More Meaningful Journeys (Further Autoethnographies of Quest and Identity Transformation)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:21:00 +0000

Price: $64.99

Dozen Dirty Dumplings (Travelling across Asia in the 1980s)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:21:13 +0000

In the early 1980s – long before smartphones, budget flights or the safety net of Google Maps – an uncertain and gloriously uninformed Chris Price set out to cross Asia the slow way. Armed with a backpack, questionable judgement and a stack of diaries, the accidental adventurer crossed 13 countrie..

Price: $16.99

Cheese Trekking (How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:22:49 +0000

Exploring the intersection between traditional and modern, this is a no-holds-barred guide to natural cheesemaking, dairying, and pastoralism—and one man’s global quest to make milk Sacred again.

In Cheese Trekking, nomadic cheesemaker, fermentation educator, and popular Subst..

Price: $29.95