Stories that move you
Honest, first-person narratives from fifteen countries on six continents. Missed buses, mountain storms, unexpected kindness. The moments that change how you see the world.
Pre-launch — English edition
Travel far.
Live fully.
Borboleta Travels is a collection of true travel stories and motivational reflections from the road less traveled – proof that every journey outward can spark a deeper journey within.
Crowdfunding launch planned for October 2026
A travel & motivation book · English edition
The book
Every journey tells a story
Borboleta Travels gathers eighteen years of journeys into one book: travel stories from 15 countries across 6 continents, told honestly and without a filter – from sunrise hikes to the small, unplanned encounters that stay with you longest.
Across 300 pages in six chapters, full-color photography and original illustrations sit alongside practical hiking and travel tips you can actually use. Each chapter closes with motivational reflections that turn miles on the road into lessons for everyday life.
The Slovak edition of this book has already found its readers and won national book awards. Now it’s time for the English edition. The same journeys. The same stories. The same inspiration. But now shared with readers around the world.
Travel with substance
Hiking and travel tips woven through every chapter, plus photography and original illustrations that put you inside each landscape instead of just describing it.
A first edition to keep
Three hundred pages across six chapters, beautifully designed and filled with journeys, stories, inspiration, and practical travel tips. Early backers can secure signed copies from the first print run.
Early list benefits
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Chapter 1 preview
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“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
About the author
Jana Urbanovská
Jana is a published Slovak Canadian author, traveler and creative soul – the writer behind Borboletagram and the award-winning book Borboleta cestuje. For eighteen years she has been gathering stories on the road: climbing, hiking and wandering her way across continents, and writing them down exactly as they felt.
The English edition of Borboleta Travels makes those stories accessible to more readers than ever before. The same honest journeys, the same lessons, now in a language that travels further.
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