Introducing Further Magazine

If you’re anything like us, you’ve spent too many hours searching the web for smart, savvy, inspiring travel info, only to find yourself overwhelmed and underserved. Where, you ask, is the sophisticated travel content for grown-ups?

That, for us, was the starting point of Further. Most of us came up in the glossy heyday of print magazines. (Yes, kids, they were real, and they were spectacular.) Nilou and I met at Travel + Leisure; she later headed up Food & Wine and Epicurious while I was at Condé Nast Traveler and Saveur. We’re old enough to remember when people paid (!) for good travel content, which arrived via the mailbox or the newsstand. Now, like you, we spend most of our non-traveling lives online — it’s where we go to read, connect, discover, and dream up our next journeys. So why is it so hard to find a trusted source that speaks to us?

As travelers, we longed for a digital site that provides intel with insight, showing us not just where to go and what to do but why — and why it matters. A truly world-spanning travel mag covering all seven continents. A place for deep-dive destination guides, far-flung adventure stories, enlightening profiles and essays, and, yes, comic relief. (Let’s not kid ourselves that travel isn’t occasionally worth a good laugh.)

And as journalists, we pined for a travel journal that combined the richness and reach of digital with the care and cadence of print. A beautifully designed, thoughtfully curated monthly, one we’d be excited to see in our inbox.

So we thought…why not just make it ourselves? And so we did. Thanks to the generous support of our partners at Silversea, we created Further — a luxury travel magazine that delivers straight to your inbox each month, bringing stories from across the planet, all for free. (Yes, you read that right: Further is absolutely free.)

We assembled a band of well-traveled merrymakers who care deeply (perhaps too much) about global culture and the good life — and who are some of the hardest-working, most talented journalists, writers, photographers, illustrators, designers, videographers, and editors in the field. No doubt you’ll get to know them by name over the coming months.

We don’t cover everything. We cover extraordinary things. Think of our site as a filter, not a firehose. We designed Further to be a refuge from the web’s chaos and clamor, where you can tune out the noise and tune in to what you really came for: gorgeous visuals, smart takeaways, and transportive stories that inspire as much as they inform. That means no annoying pop-up ads — indeed, no advertising of any kind. Nor will we flood you with AI-driven listicles and cheap clickbait. We know you see other people for that. (No judgments!) Each month we’ll gift you a tastefully packaged collection of stories — you might even call it an “issue” — highlighting those singular, only here experiences that make travel so worthwhile.

This, to us, feels like true luxury. We hope you’ll feel the same, and will find a like-minded partner in Further. As we all know, a fine travel companion is a rare thing indeed.

You can subscribe for free (really, we’re not kidding!) and follow us on Instagram and Facebook to keep up with all our latest discoveries.

Thanks for joining us, friends — we’re thrilled to have you here. Now let’s see what this world can do.

Yours,
Peter Jon Lindberg
Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief
Brooklyn, New York
September 18, 2024

INTRODUCING FURTHER

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