Expedition Society Journal publishes long-form adventure writing on explorers, historical expeditions, and remote places, paired with cocktail recipes and drink history. Its excerpts include a Halloween piece on Caribbean ghost legends, an account of Michael Rockefeller's fatal 1961 New Guinea swim, and a travelogue from Slab City in the California desert.
Website: https://expeditionsocietyjournal.substack.com
Barrels+Bombs publishes first-person travel and adventure dispatches with photography, covering road trips, surf, camping and outdoor landscapes mainly across the American West. Issues read as narrative essays rather than guides or news.
A serialized science fiction adventure novel told in first person, following a captive narrator in a Polynesian-inspired world as he is caged and marched toward an uncertain fate. The excerpts favour vivid sensory detail, tense pacing and a wry, gritty voice.
A first-person travel blog following Basti's bicycle journey along the Pan-American Highway from Alaska southwards, with each issue covering one leg of the route. Posts include distances, elevation gain, camping and gear details, and anecdotes from the road.
A sailing couple's blog-style newsletter chronicling their offshore voyage from British Columbia to the South Pacific, including a 39-day Bamfield to Hiva Oa passage with candid accounts of weather and seamanship. It also covers their boat choice, a 1985 Passport 40 refit, and the departure from Sidney.
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