Borgo Publishing
Welcome to Borgo Publishing, an independent book publisher offering a variety of book production options. We can design your book interior and cover, as well as provide additional services (editorial, illustration, proofreading, indexing, and photography) to complete your project. With 40 years of book design experience, we keep on top of current trends in the industry to increase the market value of each book. Most importantly, we provide an outlet for non-profits to tell their stories at a very competitive rate.
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Frontlist
Thailand and Cambodia
First Impressions
Ian W. Brown
August 15, 2026
List Price: $22.00 PB
134 pages, full color
This volume is the third in a series, A Borgo Travel Journal. The 18th century was the heyday of publishing diaries as travel accounts. Although diaries do remain popular today as expressions of thought and philosophy, as well as coming-of-age accounts (think Anne Frank!), seldom are travel diaries published verbatim. Borgo Publishing thinks they should be. For all of you who travel, whether for work or fun, each day on the road yields new discoveries and sensations. Travel is a stimulant, both positively and negatively. It can bring immense joy, bitter frustration, excitement, fatigue, anger, or sorrow, often all in the same day. Travel also may establish friendships that last forever. The main lesson we learn from these diaries is that it’s okay to be grumpy at times in experiencing the lives and lands of others.
Ian’s current book on his travels to Thailand and Cambodia is a very different experience for me. I am very familiar with Thailand, having spent one to three months there annually for the past 30 years, during which time I also visited Cambodia on numerous occasions. In reading his Southeast Asian narrative I have come to realize that not only is there great value in learning about new countries and peoples, but also in seeing a place one knows well through fresh eyes of someone skilled in conveying first impressions. In reading this book I realize I had become rather complacent—even in some ways, unseeing—about the charms of the two countries. Ian’s fresh look has re-sensitized me to all the wonderful complexities which those countries have to offer—his descriptions of encounters with local inhabitants and their reactions ring so true I had to smile at my own memories of similar encounters from long past years.
—From the Foreword by Douglas D. Anderson
Ian W. Brown
January 15, 2026
List Price: $18.95 PB
96 pages, full color
This volume is the second in a series, A Borgo Travel Journal. The 18th century was the heyday of publishing diaries as travel accounts. Although diaries do remain popular today as expressions of thought and philosophy, as well as coming-of-age accounts (think Anne Frank!), seldom are travel diaries published verbatim. Borgo Publishing thinks they should be. For all of you who travel, whether for work or fun, each day on the road yields new discoveries and sensations. Travel is a stimulant, both positively and negatively. It can bring immense joy, bitter frustration, excitement, fatigue, anger, or sorrow, often all in the same day. Travel also may establish friendships that last forever. The main lesson we learn from these diaries is that it’s okay to be grumpy at times in experiencing the lives and lands of others.
There are few landscapes in North America as spectacular and iconic as the Mesa Verde and its hinterland. Nor are there many places where the presence (and absence) of the Ancient Ones is more palpable; a place where their remains are both highly visible and intelligible and yet still full of questions and mystery. I don’t know how anyone can see and experience this place for the first time and not have their life changed forever. It changed mine and I believe it changed Professor Brown’s as well, although we were at very different points in our life journeys. Seeing Mesa Verde afresh through Ian’s eyes brought back memories of the excitement I felt more than 50 years ago on my first trip to the Southwest.
—From the Foreword by Judith A. Habicht Mauche
Go West, Old Man
Journal of a Trip to Mesa Verde
Ashley A. Dumas, Ian W. Brown and Shane K. Bernard
September 1, 2025
List Price: $19.95 PB
88 pages, full color
I value having played a tiny role in the archaeological history of the Island, but I am especially pleased to see this present study. The authors have done a master-ful job of pursuing the research and their efforts deserve accolades. Their study exemplifies the best that historical archaeology has to offer by comingling information from diverse sources. In isolation, the archaeological finds, the written records, and the historical images would each be interesting by them-selves. But in their skilled combination, they offer a profound understanding of the creation and development of Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce within the revered Laboratory. This study, because it focuses on one relatively small building, is essentially a case study in microarchaeology. But unlike many such close examinations, this one has a twist because its implications are truly global. Archaeologists of the modern era are likely to excavate Tabasco Sauce bottles in households across the globe, wherever dedicated hot sauce enthusiasts have trod. (A lucky Egyptologist may even find one.) Thus, this present study is destined to become a required reference work for this influential (many would say manda-tory) hot sauce. The authors are so successful that readers may swear they smell pepper mash as they hold the book.
—From the Foreword by Charles E. Orser, Jr.
The Archaeology of TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sauce
Wandering
Ascending the Nile and the Rhine
with a Little of Jordan in Between
Ian W. Brown
February 2025
List Price: $18.95 PB
104 pages, full color
A Borgo Travel Journal
With this volume on Wandering, a new series is launched. The 18th century was the heyday of publishing diaries as travel accounts. Although diaries do remain popular today as expressions of thought and philosophy, as well as coming-of-age accounts (think Anne Frank!), seldom are travel diaries published verbatim. Borgo Publishing thinks they should be. For all of you who travel, whether for work or fun, each day on the road yields new discoveries and sensations. Travel is a stimulant, both positively and negatively. It can bring immense joy, bitter frustration, excitement, fatigue, anger, or sorrow, often all in the same day. Travel also may establish friendships that last forever. The main lesson we learn from these diaries is that it’s okay to be grumpy at times in experiencing the lives and lands of others.
