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Led by Director and Chief Exec, Matthew Webb, over 120 editors, writers, and other contributors including Troy Onyango, Faith Adiele, Nicolas D. Sampson, Marie Baleo, Anne Louise Avery, Richard Ali, Robin Hemley, make Panorama possible.

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Panorama emphasises writing and the visual arts created with a deep intelligence, reconnecting us to the world. Thank you for considering submitting your work to our journal, and we look forward to reading your submission.

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Sunday Magazine: 06.11.16

We’re often asked why we decided to create Panorama, and this issue explains much of our answer: our editorial team wanted to gather together travel themed works in one place that would never be next to one another elsewhere, but that fit together in perfect symbiosis.

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Weekend Reading: Never Say Never

Over 1,200 years ago, disgruntled Norse Viking sailed northward and started a new society, complete with a parliament, on an island they called Snæland, “land of snow.” Just as they were called to that improbable, frozen place, so was I. I went to Iceland for the vistas, for the endless daylight, for the feeling of being on another planet. I went there to be alone, small against the bigness of mountains and ocean. I did not go there to eat.

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Weekend Reading: Right of Way

I look at the traffic, coming in droves from all sides: mopeds, taxis, pick-up trucks, and bicycles. The mopeds are the most impressive; some solely carry their driver, others are laden with flowers, food, cartons, ducks, hens, pigs, and other animals, with cargo carried on baskets behind the driver, or on laps, or on a well-constructed and expertly balanced pyramid over the rear wheel. Others carry families, three kids flanking a parent, laying waste to the idea of a saloon or people mover as a household requirement. Lanes, to the foreigner’s eye, are nonexistent, and instead, one sees constantly created pathways as each vehicle finds its own way, in its own time.

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Weekend Reading: Mystery at Jackass Gulch

He’d been silent, the other man at the bar, gazing into his glass of whiskey before growing animated at the mention of Mark Twain. “I met Twain one time, you know, out near Jackass Hill.”

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Weekend Reading: Nude Ascending the Welkin

Candle flame on cold pillar tallow,
Wick bent to dip of our wings,

Lighting up naught over naught of our lift,
Stretched days direct most things.

How I nearly screwed my eye for an eye,
Mistook your first chill flash for the moon

Until the weirding of your arc
Mounted...

Issue 3: Open

We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections for the ‘Open’ issue invite readers into the landscape of the personal journey, and redefine what that can be.

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Open: Ashes to Ashes

In the fourth grade, my teacher gave each student a vial of ash from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington.
The ash was a lighter colour than I expected—I had only seen ashes in our fireplace and in ashtrays. It was powdery, li...

Issue 4: Seen

Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, how we see places and one another will determine what happens next to our human family.
Panorama: the Journal of Intelligent Travel proudly offers up our latest collection, ‘Seen,’ in the spirit of sequi, to follow. Along...

Seen: Swimming with the Fishes

‘If you go to Caye Caulker, see Juni.’ The Australian woman whose name I never caught shouted this tip as she waved goodbye and got off the bus. I follow advice from fellow travellers as much as possible—I owe many of my most memorable experiences to spontaneous word-of-mouth recommendations I would have missed had I limited myself to guidebooks or Trip Advisor. The name Juni stuck with me. I liked the way it sounded, perhaps because it wasn’t so different from my own nickname, Joey, but it was smoother, special. I didn’t know who or what Juni was, but I’d be in Belize in a couple of weeks and I intended to find out.

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Bio: Joelle Renstrom

“Travelling is inextricable from living, grieving, reading, teaching, and so many other things; not forcing the separation of these experiences increases their potency and poignancy.”

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Issue 7: Dawn

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places, and experiences. We explore new beginnings, transitions, dawnings, and realisations. New landscapes are explored. New places ventured. New experiences, in familiar environs, are retold. New is often seen as positive, yet change is often more complex, and we look at this too. With our return comes an expanded scope. Whilst retaining a core travel emphasis, we have added ‘place’ and ‘nature.’ Essays in Panorama have always been place-based but this increased focus on the natural world opens up new avenues to explore. With this in mind, we have added a new Ecology & Conservation Editor, Julia Knights, who uses this first issue to speak with world-leading botanist Ghillean Prance. The result is an enlightening and frightening conversation about the Amazon rainforest.

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Issue 8: Space

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from the furtive earth-bed of mushroom forests to the stars. Granville Carroll’s afro-futuristic cover artwork “Becoming” places us in space. John Angerson provides the obligatory rocket-propelled photos. Matilde Gattoni reminds us that one’s freedom to explore space can suddenly be taken away. The connection with space doesn’t stop there. Melissa Tuckman’s aptly titled poem “Space Junk” connects space debris to modern living. A new section on New Nature Writing probes the world beyond our urban confines. In the second outing for Decolonising Travel, there are excruciating, painful stories, sexual imaginings in the steam room, and personal reflections on historical ties to oppression; all whilst giving writers who have come through VONA/Faith Adiele’s writing programme space to share their work. We finish the issue with a stroll through London — the most ethnically diverse world capital — through the lens of Books Editor Nicolas D. Sampson.

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Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways it’s the most diverse publication to date for the breadth of contributions and the people involved.

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