Treasure, noun: Old French tresor; originating from the Gallo-Roman word tresaurus, meaning ‘treasury, hoard, treasure’, related to the Latin and Greek thesaurus. Replaced Old English goldhord.

Treasure, verb: ‘to amass treasure; to store up for the future’ also figurative, ‘regard as precious, retain carefully in the mind.’

Welcome to Panorama’s second Quarterly issue. Panorama exists to not only publish extraordinary diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel is. This Quarterly explores the idea of ‘treasure’ through travel-themed fiction, memoir, essays, poetry, photography, and illustrations.

For this issue, we’ve asked writers and image-makers to push the limits of how ‘treasure’ can be defined: what has value, what is found, what is lost, and how finding treasure -or not- changes them. We begin with magical illustrations by Spanish artist Marta Munoz, and a commentary on the duality of environmental degradation and the touristic fantasy of two of the landscapes of Rio, by Brazilian photographer Elsa Sereia Leyder.

Treasures launches a new sophisticated series on cartography, set in motion by British cartographer Anne Louise Avery’s essay on the history of treasure maps, which includes the narratives of women and people of colour. We’re also delighted to publish our second Emerging Writer, Alex Borgen, who offers up an experimental lyrical piece on moving through place.

From travel fiction by American writer Anna O’Brien that takes you from the berth of a ship to the Bay of Bengal, to Nigerian-American poet Uche Nduka’s stirring poem on identity paired with place, to British writer Holly Dawson’s irreverent wanderings in Cornwall, Panorama brings you the world.

We went to look at an old world map. But we couldn’t scratch Australia out from underneath — because that piece of the map was covered by a large overlay of Warsaw. So they said to me, “You see that it’s hard to get to Australia and there aren’t any Jews there anyway.”