Home/World: A Circumnavigation of Our Shared Earth by Hatke, Ben

A "traveler's masterpiece." --Booklist, starred review

Eisner award-winning author Ben Hatke recounts his epic circumnavigation of the globe in Home/World, a profound graphic memoir perfect for fans of Bill Bryson.

One spring morning, Ben Hatke walked out his door and headed east, carrying a sketchbook and the audacious trust that if he journeyed long enough, the curve of the earth would bring him home again. What he met was a world more perilous and more generous than he ever imagined.

In Home/World, the Eisner Award-winning creator chronicles this circumnavigation through ink-and-watercolor pages that capture not just the sweep of continents but flickers of human encounters: a shared meal in a village, a moment of terror at a border crossing, the language of laughter breaking through babel. Hatke's storytelling transforms the travel narrative into something urgent and immediate--a reckoning with our fractured yet resilient planet.

In an age when the world feels boundless and claustrophobic, Home/World offers not an escape, but a return. A return to wonder, to hope, to the possibility that strangers may prove kinder than we think, and to the belief that art may yet hold humanity together.

Author: Ben Hatke
Publisher: 23rd Street Books
Published: 10/06/2026
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250370181

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2026
Booklist 08/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 10/05/2026

About the Author
Ben Hatke is the author and illustrator of the New York Times-bestselling Zita the Spacegirl trilogy, the picture books Julia's House for Lost Creatures and Nobody Likes a Goblin, and the graphic novels Little Robot, Mighty Jack, and Things in the Basement. He lives and works in the Shenandoah Valley with his wife and their boisterous pack of daughters.