Mission

Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature is a British literary journal, with a modern focus on travel literature, art, and photography.

Firsts: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

I got into travel writing accidentally: it’s not something I intended to do, but a series of circumstances happened which made me into a travel...

Firsts: Mutola

Chivambo loved to tell stories, but this one was his favourite. He told it as often as he could. Some heard it when he was...

Bio: Matthew Webb

“Travel photography has the opportunity to prick our senses and stimulate thoughts, yet the opposite is more common. The travel industry promotes images that help...

Bio: Ru Freeman

“Good fiction is the art of travelling through time, space, events, and interiorities we may never have experienced, but must imagine into being and understand...

Bio: Sarge Lacuesta

“When we travel, we make other places present. When we write about travelling, we make ourselves present.”

Sarge’s background in non-fiction is rooted in his...

Weekend Reading: The Taste of Healing

At the age of 28, in 1992, I was told I had HIV and maybe “a good five years” to live. By the time the...

Weekend Reading: When the Cock Crows

“You shouldn’t have done it,” whispered the willowy brunette standing across from me. She was staring at the book she held in her hands, not...

Treasures: Thor Heyerdahl and Kontiki

Our classrooms had earthen floors and windows the size of full moons – a truant’s blessing, but I wasn’t one. We sprinkled water every morning...

Treasures: How to Plant Roots in the Sand

The thunder and lightning crash so hard around my home it knocks paintings from the wall and tchotchkes to the floor. A wall of rain...

Open: Hameen’s Wallet

The wallet’s leather folds wink beneath the shuffle of feet on Tottenham Court Road. Tired feet, anxious feet, melancholy feet, sweaty feet tromp around it,...

Open: Boulevard of Open Dreams

Plaza de la Cathedral, is an open space except during special events like Liberation Day. On Liberation Day, bands, stands and volunteer hands fill the...

Partner with us

Panorama partners with other literary journals, associations, and groups worldwide, especially those who emphasize global, diverse and new school narratives outside of the traditional travel...

Seen: Dr. Premachandra’s St Louis Pilgrimage: Mapping the Mid-West from a Cadillac

I awoke in a state of shock on Thursday, March 5, 2015.

Even though I was prepared for the events of that day, the full,...

Seen: Snags

A few weeks after giving birth to our second, I stood on top of a mountain. Denali, the highest peak in North America, hid behind...

Seen: Deep Respect

John Wesley Powell and his crew of battered boatmen spent the morning of 14 August 1869 rowing through one rapid and carrying their boats around...

Seen: Philippi

“There’s a story here,” she said. I told her I didn’t doubt it. “Each town has at least one or two stories behind it, right?”...

Seen: On Filmmaking and Travel

I don’t remember when I developed the urge to travel. Did it start when I took my first film job in 2008, which saw me...

Issue 5: Lost

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel‘s long awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose...

Lost: Hoja And His Shadow: Deconstructing Orhan Pamuk’s White Castle

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk is a mystifying tale of confused identity, self-reflection, and a world caught between two versions of itself. More than...

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