Rachel Maria Taylor and Jody Daunton had absolutely no experience in publishing when they founded Another Escape in 2012. They had creative backgrounds, they loved the medium, and they had cash saved for a trip they never took. Instead of travelling, they started a magazine from Bristol, UK — a high-quality lifestyle publication built around outdoor culture, environmental stewardship, and the stories of people whose lives have been fundamentally shaped by their relationship with the natural world.
The magazine found its audience quickly. In a crowded field of outdoor publications obsessed with metrics and egos — miles clocked, terrain covered, mountains summited — Another Escape went the other direction. Its subjects were farmers, craftspeople, ecologists, artists, and adventurers whose work was rooted in the landscapes they inhabited. The photography, led by Daunton as creative director, was given generous space on 160 pages of beautiful 120gsm uncoated FSC-certified paper, printed in vegetable inks. The writing had the quality of a long conversation with someone who has thought carefully about the relationship between human life and the natural systems that sustain it.
After eight self-designed issues, Taylor and Daunton handed the redesign to She Was Only, the studio behind Intern, Boat, and Teeth, and relaunched with issue nine in 2017. The new design retained the magazine’s signature airiness while lifting the overall reading experience. By then, Another Escape had been featured in books including Print Is Dead Long Live Print (Prestel) and So You Want to Publish a Magazine (Laurence King), and on Monocle’s podcast The Stack.
The magazine’s printing philosophy was as considered as its editorial: working closely with regional distributors and operating in-house distribution to calculate the true number of copies they would actually sell, printing only that amount. No unread magazines going to waste. It was sustainability applied not just as an editorial theme but as a business practice. After a decade of publication, Another Escape ceased printing in 2022, but its thirteen issues remain a benchmark for what an outdoor lifestyle magazine can be when it treats nature not as a weekend destination but as the foundation of everything.
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