Welcome to Lodestars Anthology

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a land of myth, created, according to Māori lore, when the Polynesian Demi-God Māui cast a fishhook crafted from an ancestor’s jawbone off the canoe in which he had stowed himself away.

With this, he hauled from the ocean’s depths a giant fish, which became the North Island, its mountains and rivers carved out by his brothers impatient to devour the catch. The South Island is their canoe, with secluded Rakiura, found at what feels like the end of the earth, formed from its anchor stone. Today, with its sleeping volcanoes, mighty fjords, seemingly endless coastline and ability to make visitors feel deliciously small, New Zealand remains shrouded in a special kind of magic.

Some featured destinations: Milford Sound, Rotorua, Taupō, Queenstown, Stewart Island, Northland, Bay of Islands, Hawke's Bay, Abel Tasman National Park, Mount Cook / Aoraki, Wellington, Marlborough Sounds & much, much more. 

To celebrate 10 years of magazine making, issue 18 is dedicated to Islands, dreamy and diverse destinations (where nature and connection take centrestage) that you'll immediately want to add to your travel wishlist.

A few featured locations include: 

Lamu | Sri Lanka | Borneo | Mauritius | Îles d’Hyères | Faroe Islands | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Raja Ampat | Maldives | Montréal | Gothenburg Archipelago | Patagonia | Newfoundland | Guernsey | Sicily | Estonia | Bornholm | California | Lombok | Mallorca | Bermuda

This is our ode to Kanazawa, a city shaped by tradition, art and design. This new, 148-page City Guide is full of fabulous restaurants, hotels & ryokans, activities, natural attractions and Japanese getaways to build a trip around. It’s sure to inspire wanderlust.

Fall in love Lisbon's food, fado and all-round fabulousness. This new City Guide features a fantastic selection of restaurants, hotels, artists, activities, tours, green spaces and weekend escapes... everything you need for the perfect escape. 

Cover price - £14

This is our guide to brilliant, buzzing, colourful London. Within these pages you'll find our carefully curated collection of restaurants, activities, walks, swims, hotels and weekend escapes - and photographic travel inspiration aplenty. What a city!

Welcome to the first issue of our City Guide series, dedicated to sunny Sydney, Australia. Within these pages you'll find our carefully curated collection of restaurants, activities, walks, swims, hotels and weekend escapes - and photographic travel inspiration aplenty. It will help you fall in love with everything this harbour city has to offer.

All four City Guides - Sydney, London, Lisbon & Kanazawa - in a single bundle!

City Guide: London

This is our guide to brilliant, buzzing, colourful London. Within these pages you'll find our carefully curated collection of restaurants, activities, walks, swims, hotels and weekend escapes - and photographic travel inspiration aplenty. What a city!

City Guide: Sydney

Welcome to the first issue of our City Guide series, dedicated to sunny Sydney, Australia. Within these pages you'll find our carefully curated collection of restaurants, activities, walks, swims, hotels and weekend escapes - and photographic travel inspiration aplenty. It will help you fall in love with everything this harbour city has to offer.

Cty Guide: Lisbon

Fall in love Lisbon's food, fado and all-round fabulousness. This new City Guide features a fantastic selection of restaurants, hotels, artists, activities, tours, green spaces and weekend escapes... everything you need for the perfect escape. 

City Guide: Kanazawa

This is our ode to Kanazawa, a city shaped by tradition, art and design. This new, 148-page City Guide is full of fabulous restaurants, hotels & ryokans, activities, natural attractions and Japanese getaways to build a trip around. It’s sure to inspire wanderlust.

All available printed issues of Lodestars Anthology and our special release, Postcards.

New Zealand, Islands, Japan, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Mexico, Australia, Greece, Spain, Postcards.

Journey to Japan and discover a land of tea and tropics, wabi-sabi and wonder. A place where symbolism abounds and nothing is without purpose.

There are illuminated capitals and pockets of untouched wilderness, both marked by a deep sense of spirituality. Art flourishes, design inspires and others come first. May the light never dim on the Land of the Rising Sun

Some featured locations: Yakushima, Naoshima, Kunisaki Peninsula, Kii Mountains, Nikko, Yaeyama Islands, Tokyo, Aomori, Kyoto, Akita, Kinosaki Onsen, Furano, Osaka, Toyama

This updated reissue contains a host of features from the original two issues and a selection of new stories and artworks. 

Awash with Renaissance grandeur, Italy is a place of passion and beauty where more than a single city is eternal. Here every corner is steeped in history and the country’s artistic and culinary lineage calls to travellers old and new. Italy’s waterways and olive-dotted hills may be immediately recognisable, yet it constantly defies expectations - often in the most enchanting way possible.

Some featured locations: 

Procida - Rome - Caldaro - Monforte d’Alba- Positano - Castelli - Desulo - Madonna di Campiglio - Bologna - Ravenna - Portofino - La Spezia - Florence - Lake Maggiore - Trieste - Matera - Monopoli - Scopello - Oasy Nature Reserve - Venice - Pitigliano - Tropea - Alpe di Siusi

Issue 17 is dedicated to the glorious island of Ireland.

A celebration of all that is enchanting, delicious and wild about the Island of Ireland - made by those who are already under its spell.

A few featured destinations: Connemara, Ring of Kerry, Waterford, Cork, The Burren, Dingle, Galway, Longford, Glendalough, Belfast, Mullaghmore, Adare, Dublin, Causeway Coast, Athlone, Aran Islands, Tory Island, Boyne Valley

An ode to slow travel, splendour and sun. Que viva España.

For this magazine, our contributors have descended into caves in the name of cheese, gone in search of volcanoes, wandered ancient pilgrim paths, ridden horses into the sunset, been enthralled by architecture, cooked the way their grandparents did and penned odes to lace. They have explored places that come with meaning. Some destinations are ‘home’, others are steeped in memory, and a few are being discovered for the very first time, the siren’s call impossible to resist. You can read this zest in their words and see the ardour in their images, because when someone creates with love and respect you feel it. You’re there with them. This is how I was reacquainted with Spain - through the eyes of others.

Featured destinations: Ibiza, Tarifa, Oviedo, Toledo, Granada, Segovia, Seville, Valencia, Lanzarote, Montserrat, Formentera, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela

This is a magazine about Greece - a celebration of her myths, mountains and glittering seas. It contains glimpses of island life and odes to olives, and lashings of wildflowers, ruins, wilderness and awe. A place of gods and romance, Greece has always offered multitudes - so soak up these pages and allow yourself to fall under her spell.

Some locations featured:

Zagori, Corfu, Messolonghi, Mykonos, Santorini, Syros, Kefalonia, Simi, Athens, Pelion, Rhodes, Ikaria, Andros, Kasos, Crete, The Mani, Halkidiki Eleusis

Fall in love with Australia - story by story, again and again.

Featured Destinations: Mount Mulligan • Fraser Island • Kangaroo Island • Adelaide • Darwin • Alice Springs • Uluru • Ningaloo Reef • Wilpena Pound • Karijini National Park • Cape to Cape • Hobart • Scenic Rim Trail • Kimberley • Cradle Mountain • Port Fairy • Daylesford • Larapinta Trail

And, my word, Mexico is beautiful. It is timeless, multilayered, mesmeric and utterly indefinable. Peruse these pages, dream of the faraway, ignite your wanderlust and prepare to fall in love.

Some featured destinations

Puebla - Mexico City - Oaxaca - Mérida - Tulum - Puerto Escondido - San Miguel de Allende - Guadalajara - San José del Cabo - Ensenada - Tecate - Tepoztlán - El Arenal - Isla Holbox - Teotitlán del Valle - Colima - Lacandón Jungle

Splendid and suave, Switzerland - with its mountains, lakes and palatial hotels - is remarkably good for the soul. 

Steeped in history, Switzerland is both lavish and refined - chocolate-box perfection guaranteed to surprise. It is a playground, refuge and wonderland. A hideaway and delight. And amongst these pages are hints of all it has to offer. There are tales of intrigue and adventure, romance and the sublime - of towns where time is kept and paused, cantons that charm, literary escapades, wilderness, trains and alpine fare that is very fine indeed.

Featuring Neuchâtel | Lausanne | Geneva | Gstaad | Mürren | Zürich | St. Gallen | Bad Ragaz | St. Moritz | Ascona | Lugano | Bern | Great St. Bernard Pass | Bürgenstock | Scuol | The Orient Express

A 144 page publication featuring some of the photographs that make our contributors happy. Created in lockdown, it is our ode to travel - and all the beauty and wonder that is out there, just waiting until the world is ready. 

"I’m convinced that to look back like this, while always in part an act of grief, is first and foremost a celebration. The past, humming with the attention we give it, repays us in kind - by reminding us of how far we’ve come. Now, and perhaps for a while yet, this will be our challenge, to take solace in memory."

- Cameron Zeyd Lange
Los Angeles, May 2020

During lockdown in London (having printed Mexico and replotted our issues dedicated to Greece and Wales) I found myself desperate to create. It wasn't about making the lockdown time count, more about finding ways to slow down, look back and seek beauty - and to offer a platform to some of the creatives who have been so generous with their time and talent over the years. And so the team and I began work on Lodestars Anthology Postcards - a 144 page photo book featuring archival work from across the world, paired with musings on life, travel and the wonders of photography.

- Liz Schaffer, Editor
London, May 2020

Featuring the Sydney City Guide, and Australia and New Zealand magazines.

SYDNEY CITY GUIDE

Welcome to the first issue of our City Guide series, dedicated to sunny Sydney, Australia. Within these pages, you'll find our carefully curated collection of restaurants, activities, walks, swims, hotels and weekend escapes - and photographic travel inspiration aplenty. It will help you fall in love with everything this harbour city has to offer.

AUSTRALIA

Fall in love with Australia - story by story, again and again.

Featured Destinations: Mount Mulligan • Fraser Island • Kangaroo Island • Adelaide • Darwin • Alice Springs • Uluru • Ningaloo Reef • Wilpena Pound • Karijini National Park • Cape to Cape • Hobart • Scenic Rim Trail • Kimberley • Cradle Mountain • Port Fairy • Daylesford • Larapinta Trail

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a land of myth, created, according to Māori lore, when the Polynesian Demi-God Māui cast a fishhook crafted from an ancestor’s jawbone off the canoe in which he had stowed himself away. With its sleeping volcanoes, mighty fjords, seemingly endless coastline and ability to make visitors feel deliciously small, New Zealand is shrouded in a special kind of magic.