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 recent passing has affected us all. We offer this issue in celebration of his storytelling. The word lost originates from the Old English losian, meaning to perish. While this collection features many narratives of loss, it also illuminates the journey to being found. We hope Bourdain is finding his way home.
With each issue of Panorama, we strive to bring something new to the travel genre. This time, forty-seven writers have gifted their best work to shed light on the way they experience place, light, weather, shadow, birth, grief, streets, maps, stars, sex, love, and grace, all through the lens of travel. We’re delighted to introduce several new sections: VONATravels focuses exclusively on emerging voices of color; Psychogeography asks us to take a different kind of journey; and Books explores travel through the perspective of the world’s great travel writers. We’ve also chosen three literary ambassadors for the year to write letters from their respective cities of Hong Kong, Nairobi, and Panjim.
LOST has so many gorgeous works, it’s hard to know where to begin.?Richard Ali comes of age with a voyage inspired by the lack of Nigerians and Nigerian places in the magazines of his boyhood in his commentary, Nigerians Travel: Travel Beyond National Geographic. Madhushree Ghosh considers the impact of Bourdain on the way we view difference, food, and travel in The Essence of Bourdain.? Lola Akimade Akerstrom sets out to Greenland to follow in the footsteps of the great African explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie, but ends up making her own trail in Going the Way of the Qivittoq.
Ernest White II goes deep in an interview with author Andrew Evans on travel writing, gender, identity, and why he likes taking the bus. Matthew Webb explores travelling through Post-Soviet landscapes with Russian photographer Max Sher. These, and many more travelogues, await you in the form of memoir, poetry, fiction, imagery, and cartography.
We give you LOST: one world, not one narrative.
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NIgerians Travel: Travel Beyond National Geographic
Richard Ali
IN MEMORIAM
The Essence of Bourdain
Madhushree Ghosh
‘We loved his essence, the heady high he gave us by being original, by being truthful, by being vulnerable. He morphed into a travel writer with food as his vehicle. It was only natural for an essayist who was honest about his past as a hardcore drug user in the eighties, his failures in his twenties, his smoking addiction, his need to be on the edge of self-destruction, and his love for all things unknown. That was exciting to him. So it was exciting to us.’
TRIPTYCH
POETRY
BOOKS
In Conversation with Andrew Evans
Ernest White II
National Geographic?travel writer and explorer Andrew Evans on his book?The Black Penguin, why he travels, gender and identity,?the need for multiple narratives, and taking the bus all the way to Antarctica.?
‘When you think about travel, the way most people do it now is to try and control the experience, and I like the opposite. That was the whole point of this, to throw myself into whatever and be open to whatever. And sometimes that’s painful. Sometimes that means sleeping in a ditch overnight, or sitting next to a crazy felon, or whatever. But when you’re open to that, for me, that’s when the magic happens. That what this story is about.’
Hoja And His Shadow: Deconstructing Orhan Pamuk’s White Castle
Nicolas Sampson
Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle is?his?fictional travelogue masterpiece, starring a young Italian scholar who ends up in Istanbul, first as a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire, then as a slave, his fate coming to a surprising conclusion.
‘A tale of?confused identity, self-reflection, and a world caught between two versions of itself. More than that, it’s a meditation on modern Turkish culture and its complex relation to the West, a cultural and psychological deliberation written in a way that evaded the censors of the day.’
A book to inspire your own imaginary journey.
VONATRAVELS
An Introduction to VONATRAVELS
Faith Adiele
Why we need to champion travelogues by writers of colour.
VONATRAVELS Journal
Mary Ann Thomas
The diaries of a queer brown cyclist journeying across India.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Going the Way of the Qivittoq
Lola Akimade Akerstrom
‘The tail end of April found me in Greenland because of a book by the first African ever to set foot on the world’s largest island in the sixties. Years before, I’d poured through Togo-born Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s book,?An African in Greenland. Fascinated by his journey, I vowed to follow some of his footsteps and see those very icebergs that had captivated him over 50 years ago.? I had automatically assumed we shared the same lure of the unfamiliar, but as the squall wailed and groaned outside, reminding me who was boss, I realized what drew both Teté and I to Greenland weren’t one and the same.’
In Conversation with Max Sher
Matthew Webb
INFLUENCER
CARTOGRAPHY
Don’t Meet Me in St Louis
Samuel Autman
The life of an opera diva encourages a dreamer to see the world.
Finding My Way In the Night Sky
Siffy Torkildson
Celestial atlases and a telescope prompt a young woman to look up.
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
Psychogeographer
Richard Oduor Oduku
EATEN
Losing, Lost, Finding, Found
Kerry Beth Neville
Letting go in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
NONFICTION
Looking for Lorca
Steven Reese
LITERARY AMBASSADORS
FICTION
OUTDOOR LITERATURE
Becoming Pirate Mama: Rethinking Life As a Single Mom
Ky Delaney
Inspired by the story of pirate Anne Bonny, a young mother sets out to learn to sail with her young son, choosing a life of adventure for them both. ‘I wondered why I hadn’t heard stories like hers about single moms, ones that show our heroic strain. Somewhere deep in side a glimmer of possibility stirred where before I’d only felt despair. I imagined the adventures Tobin and I could experience, and for the first time in a long while, I allowed myself to daydream about creating a bold, watery life for Tobin and me. A month later, I enrolled in sailing classes in Anne’s hometown of Charleston, South Carolina.’
STREETVIEW
Parks Highway, Denali National Park, Alaska
Erica Watson
Sometimes the road itself is the destination.