Avaunt Magazine Launches

ADVENTURE AHEAD: Avaunt, a new biannual print title by the team who created Port magazine, is set to launch Thursday, with the aim of taking a stylish approach to the spirit of adventure and innovation. The independently published title’s editor in chief is Dan Crowe, who founded Zembla magazine, with adventurer Ben Saunders as editor and Matt Willey as creative director, with all three sharing the title of copublishers. Crowe said the magazine comes from the standpoint that there is “adventure in everything; finding an extraordinary new author that shifts one’s perception of the world; learning a new language [and] even learning to juggle or make sushi brings a sense of the new.” Among the articles in the first issue is a story on the Kombai people in Papua New Guinea, written by Oliver Steeds and photographed by Frédéric Lagrange; a story on Hugh Herr, a professor in the biomechatronics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who creates bionic prosthetic limbs, while novelist Rick Moody has written a piece that argues the case for choosing challenging reading matter. There is also a fashion shoot in the suitably rugged location of Wales’ Snowdonia mountains, while the first cover pictures a

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