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The Wylld

What happened was, well, a tree, Douglas fir to be exact, grew up through the middle of Buck’s living room. Lives down on the corner,...

Six Hours in San Juan

“Sneakers, sneakers. Come on. It’s gonna be a day of walking.” Moans and groans from the boys. Andy is wearing those horrible Adidas slippers he...

What I Thought I Had

My father’s property sat at the end of the newly cut Dream Farm Road—a steep rutted track through uncut forest, bordered by the Point Reyes...

Panama for Indoor Cats

Editing this issue of Panorama has been unexpected. One, I’m rather infamous among friends and the travel writing community for my dislike of nature. It’s...

Remarkable Trees: Biodiversity & Economic Botany

Following the UN’s International Day of the Forest on the 21st March, Julia Knights spoke to Tony Kirkham, one of the world’s leading experts on trees to learn more about...

Twenty Dollars Fake American, A Foreign Drama

We’re in the back office of a Peruvian lockup, two miles from the border of Ecuador, and I’m pleading with the sergeant in his pressed...

Cradle Dreaming

There wasn’t much sunlight filtering in but the place still felt like the inside of a cathedral—not only the soaring ceilings and brilliant colours like...

Watershed

A few years ago, during the Trump administration, I took a job as the doctor at a country music festival. It wasn’t the cast of...

The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity

We estimate there to be some 8.7 million species globally. For plants, we believe around 2 in 5 species are at risk of extinction –...

Pain & Joy, Loss & Recovery

Imagine visiting home after three years with a new perception of, and feeling for, your homeland. I’ll take you on a tour of Vietnam to...

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 All Means Everything

South across the river, it was rising over the silhouettes of trees to fill the sky. It was close, seemed to be getting closer, and...

The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, spanning nine countries of South America, is the world’s largest ecosystem and the most biodiverse place on earth with around 80,000 species...

Fire in the Mind

Imagine, for a moment, a Cézanne who, rather than attempting to picture the structure of Mont Saint-Victoire and of every part of the natural world...

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,...

Bio: Julia Knights

“Wandering through a pristine forest, breathing pure air on top of a snow-capped mountain, swimming in the world’s deepest freshwater lake… Travel is the permission...

An Interview with Paul Kenyon

I’ve often thought that the interview is a separate genre of literature, right up the with the trio of poetry, prose and drama, above ‘genre’...

The Road on the Moss

There are some journeys that stay with you. They don’t need to be epic Himalayan treks or rainforest expeditions. I was 10 or 11 when...

Poet in the Jungle

Heading for the Amazon, past the great volcano Coto Paxi, muzzle of a giant animal rising 19,000 feet from its base, snow-covered, waiting to pounce,...