NEW - Field Arts Bootcamp at Ghost Ranch in NM

Casa del Sol, our private lodge in the backcountry of the famous Ghost Ranch where Georgia O’Keeffe did much of her work.

Join us October 20-23, 2024 in New Mexico’s legendary Georgia O’Keefe country, at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu for four days and three nights of pure immersion in field arts: nature journaling, field sketching and watercolor, animal tracking, birdwatching, reading the weather, using field optics, found pigments and inks, and much more.

Imagine the luxury of doing nothing but exploring wild nature and journaling in a cohort of like-minded fellow journalers . . . and with customized one-on-one feedback and skills-specific tutoring throughout the whole experience.

The Field Arts Boot Camp is suitable for beginners to advanced journalers, as your Boot Camp experience is tailored to your appropriate level. Nurturing, inquisitive, and expansive.

No excuses. Just pure nature journaling growth and mindset.

What’s included:

• One-on-one attention in areas in which you would like to improve;

• Skills-specific mini-tutorials in field arts such as sketching, watercolor, nature writing, animal tracking, reading the weather, and using optics;

• Accommodations in at the legendary Ghost Ranch in the remote and private Casa del Sol lodge, with four different pricing options;

• Shuttle from Albuquerque, NM, to and from the ranch, departing at 8:00 am October 20 (Sunday) and returning late October 23 (Wednesday)—we will have suggested lodging options in Albuquerque near the airport;

• Wine, beer, and other beverages and snacks happy hour each evening;

• All meals from lunch on Sunday through lunch on Wednesday;

• Use of Swarovski Optics binoculars throughout the Bootcamp.

Pricing from $895 per person for camping option.

Presenting at Overland Expo West 2023

Jonathan and I will be in Flagstaff, Arizona, May 18-20 teaching at Overland Expo West 2023, the event we founded in 2009 (and sold in 2019). We hope you can stop in and see us either at one of our presentations, or at our booth (space Q62, at the entrance to the big barn “Inside Exhibits” #8 on the map).

Photo: Ann Youberg

SCHEDULE

Friday, May 19, 11 am – Keeping a Travel Journal – 11 am (open to Overland Experience ticket holders)

Friday, May 19, 3 pm – Overlanding with a 50-year-old Vehicle: How to update while preserving a classic (Booth Q62) – open to everyone

Saturday, May 20, 10 am – Best Modifications to Leave OFF Your Overlanding Vehicle (Booth Q62) – open to everyone

Saturday, May 20, 1 pm – Women’s Overlanding Roundtable Discussion (Roundtable Pavilion) - Chairing – open to everyone

Tickets range from Day Pass from around $27 (lower on Sunday) to the all-inclusive Overland Experience ($490). Hope to see you there!

Around the World in 80 Trees No. 8 - SE Asia [FREE WORKSHOP]

Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.

No. 8: Southeast Asia

What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook or an accordion booklet (see the versions I did for the other sessions, links below), pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.

TIP: I used a strip of heavy watercolor paper folded into four squares to create an “accordion” booklet to record my trees (8 total, 4 on each side).

Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of Australia (don’t forget Tasmania!) so you can sketch location points for each species.

When: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 9 am Tucson, Arizona time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

HOW: Zoom link. This session is free but for security, registration is required. Sign up > > HERE <.

NEW session added for Sonoran Desert Field Arts Bootcamp

Due to popular demand, we are adding a second session of the Sonoran Desert Field Arts Bootcamp starting one day after the first—it will run from April 4 through lunch on Friday, April 7.

Southern Arizona in spring is magical—and southern Arizona in spring at a private ranch alongside a perennial river and a mythical wilderness is the best ever—and a rare opportunity not to be missed.

From April 4 – 7, this will be four days of pure immersion in field arts: nature journaling, field sketching and watercolor, animal tracking, birdwatching, reading the weather, using field optics, found pigments and inks, and much more.

The setting is a private ranch along Aravaipa Creek about 90 minutes north of Tucson, Arizona. These are ancestral lands of the Apache people, who used the fertile riverside valley for seasonal crops.

Your accommodations are comfortable but not high luxury—think 1970s big ranch house set in a grassy meadow, with a burbling creek running alongside; meals will be included and there is an optional van shuttle from the Tucson airport.

And new for this bootcamp—a camping option if you have your own vehicle and camp setup; there is a modern bathroom for campers. Our really low pricing reflects these options!

We’ll be able to host up to 20 participants because of the camping option, and there will be two instructors—Roseann & Jonathan Hanson. For details and to register, >CLICK HERE!<

Don’t delay — this is going to fill very quickly!

Fun videos — about one of our field arts activities, and a sneak-peek at the peaceful setting. Sound for both!

Sonoran Desert Field Arts Bootcamp – registration open!

Southern Arizona in spring is magical—and southern Arizona in spring at a private ranch alongside a perennial river and a mythical wilderness is the best ever—and a rare opportunity not to be missed.

From March 30 to April 2, 2023, this will be four days of pure immersion in field arts: nature journaling, field sketching and watercolor, animal tracking, birdwatching, reading the weather, using field optics, found pigments and inks, and much more.

The setting is a private ranch along Aravaipa Creek about 90 minutes north of Tucson, Arizona. These are ancestral lands of the Apache people, who used the fertile riverside valley for seasonal crops.

Your accommodations are comfortable but not high luxury—think 1970s big ranch house set in a grassy meadow, with a burbling creek running alongside; meals will be included and there is an optional van shuttle from the Tucson airport.

And new for this bootcamp—a camping option if you have your own vehicle and camp setup; there is a modern bathroom for campers. Our really low pricing reflects these options!

We’ll be able to host up to 21 participants because of the camping option, and there will be two instructors—Roseann & Jonathan Hanson. For details and to register, >CLICK HERE!<

Don’t delay — this is going to fill very quickly!

Fun videos — about one of our field arts activities, and a sneak-peek at the peaceful setting. Sound for both!

Wyoming Field Arts Bootcamp report

Jaci E. sketching on Peralta Creek.

As a beginner, I loved all the sessions! I loved the day you taught the “landscapitos” and then we all went out in the meadow to paint. I felt like your one-on-one tutorials in the field were very valuable. You have taught me how I can simplify my journaling which will result in my actually doing more journaling in the future. Thank you for a wonderful experience! – Tammie A., Wyoming Field Arts Bootcamp participant

I’ve just returned to Arizona after a very fun first Field Arts Bootcamp in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains above Sheridan.

Sixteen participants unplugged from the distracting digital world and spent four blissful days plugged into pure nature: learning, sketching, painting, writing, exploring, investigating, and socializing with like-minded “nature nerds” — it was so much fun we didn’t want it to end!

Each day began with an early bird-and-animal-tracks walk, then a delicious breakfast prepared by the chef, Abi Hedrick (who was so attentive, talented, and lovely, we all wanted to adopt her!). An optional morning tutorial was then followed by free time to work on journal entries. Another delicious lunch, followed by an afternoon tutorial (also optional) and more free time.

Jari creating a "landscapito" of the Cloud Peak Wilderness.

Field sketching "landscapitos."

Capturing animal tracks.

Anisha getting down to business!

Everyone enjoyed the loaner Swarovski 8x32CL binoculars.

Working on our journals.

The meals were amazing.

Tutorial subjects included:

• Using Field Optics (we provided a loaner 8x32 CL Swarovski binocular for every participant!)

• Getting Over the Fear of the Blank Page

• Philosophies of Page Layout

• Landscapito Drawing Tips and Using Grids for Easy Proportions

• Watercolors Made Easy: Mixing Colors with a Triad

• Animal Tracking Basics plus Tracing Tracks and Make Plaster Casts

• Making a Cyanometer

• And a “bring it all together” session by the creek to create quick sketches

measuring, photographing, sketching, and making paster casts of animal tracks:

Marcia Lynn prepping the plaster for an animal track cast.

Using grids to sketch tracks with proper proportions.

Putting it all together: creating a “landscapito” of peralta creek (aka “little giggling creek”)

We all sketched the same creek, and it’s fun to see all the different visions and styles:

Roseann's demo "landscapitos" showing different views.

In addition, everyone got a specially made 14-card “Bootcamp Calisthenics” set (laminated and with a ring binder) for self-guided journaling “workouts” along with an animal track tip card and fun goodies to play with.

By happy hour we were all ready to gather and enjoy wine or sparkling water and share our journals and a cheerful fire in the great room. Dinner was always delicious, and we often went on further explorations afterwards, since dark was not until after 9 pm.

happy hours and journal shares:

We’ll definitely be returning to the Spear-O Wigwam ranch in the Bighorn Mountains next summer (around the third week of June 2023). I’m also booking new venues for later 2022 and into 2023 and 2024: northern New Mexico (Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu), Arizona, and Alaska, as well as the Midwest and Eastern U.S. and in England.

Bootcamp participants as well as those on my Bootcamp Interest List will get first dibs on slots opening up! Please visit the Bootcamp page here: https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-bootcamps

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Scenes from around the ranch (by Mary Jo Watters)

Announcing Nature Journaling Bootcamps 2022 – 2023

I would love feedback from you, my esteemed readers, customers, students and friends. I am designing a new live-in-person retreat for nature journalers: four days / three nights of pure nature journaling in an immersive backcountry experience. I would offer two per year, in different habitats and seasons.

Imagine the luxury of spending three full days doing nothing but nature journaling in a cohort of like-minded fellow journalers . . . and with customized one-on-one feedback and skills-specific tutoring throughout the whole experience.

The retreat would be suitable for beginners to advanced journalers, as I would tailor each experience to the appropriate level. Nurturing, inquisitive, and expansive.

No excuses. Just pure nature journaling growth and mindset.

Please let me know your interest in the following retreats, which would be all-inclusive (we meet you at the airport and transport you to the retreat site, where all lodging and meals are included). Cost will be around $1100 to $1300 per person with some sliding scales up or down in price for different accommodation types (from camping to bunkhouse to private rooms).

Summer: The Bighorn Mountains Wyoming — late June – early July 2022 — In Wyoming’s remote Bighorn Wilderness at the historic Spear-O-Wigwam Lodge, where Hemingway worked on A Farewell to Arms in 1928. Lake kayaking or canoeing would be an add-on. Beautiful log cabins in a very secluded, peaceful setting. What more could you want, and with the creative spirit of Hemingway to inspire us? [Fly into Sheridan, WY, or drive.]

Early Spring: The Sonoran Desert — March 2023 — In the stunning Aravaipa Wildnerss north of Tucson, Arizona, we would occupy the entire Aravaipa Canyon Ranch nestled along a singing desert creek. Evening campfires, stargazing, strolls amongst the majestic saguaro cacti, and sketching the red-rock cliffs. [Fly into Tucson, AZ, or drive.']

Early Fall: Alaska — August 2023 — Experience the incredible landscape of the Far North and its legendary wildlife: caribou, muskox, wolves, and moose, as well as iconic birds such as gyrfalcons, Tundra swans, snowy owls, and snow buntings. [Fly into Fairbanks, AK.]

Email > HERE < to be placed on an interest list, and let me know for which retreat. I’ll be starting to book these soon and I look forward to sharing these incredible places with you and journaling our hearts out!

Around the World in 80 Trees [FREE workshops]

Inspired by Jonathan Drori’s wonderful books Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World Plants, we’re going to travel around the globe by region and sketch interesting, weird, iconic, or beautiful trees and tree-like plants.

Stop 1: North America!

What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook, pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.

Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of North America (from the Arctic to Panama) so you can sketch location points for each species.

When: Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 9 am Arizona time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

How: Zoom link. This session is free but for security, registration is required. Sign up > HERE <.

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Stop 2: South (and Central) America!

What you’ll need: a multi-media sketchbook, pen and / or pencil for our base drawings, and then watercolor or colored pencil to quickly bring them to life.

Prepwork: have on hand a simple outline map of North America (from the Arctic to Panama) so you can sketch location points for each species.

When: Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 9 am Arizona time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )

How: Zoom link. This session is free but for security, registration is required. Sign up > HERE <.

Art and Science Spring Workshops at Desert Laboratory

Join me February 12 – May 7 at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill as we ring in the spring with the science and art of color in the desert: Red Tubular Flowers, Purple Iridescence in Hummingbirds, Yellow Palo Verde Blossoms, and Ochre Earth. Sign up for all four for a discount, or choose individual workshops (online via Zoom; by March we may be able to add in-person options). All workshops are on a Saturday from 10 am to noon Arizona time. I will be hosting all the workshops, as Art and Science Program Coordinator for the Desert Lab; and I will be teaching the art components for March 19th’s Purple Flashdance: Iridescence in Hummingbirds, and May 7th’s Ochre: Earth Makes Art.

For details and to purchase tickets for all four sessions, click here

Skyscapito Appreciation Society Meetup No. 5

[UPDATE] We had fun sharing ideas for ink-only skyscapitos! Check out the recording on our Skyscapito Appreciation Society page.

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This is not a formal workshop, it’s a gathering of skyscape and cloud enthusiasts.

When: Thursday, October 28 at 4 pm Pacific.

We will be practicing ink-only skies!

Three Field Arts offerings this fall

Virtual Field Trip: Explore the Alaskan Arctic with Roseann [FREE with registration]

Fearless Watercolor for Field Sketching, a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill workshop with Roseann

Introduction to Digital Nature Sketching on iPad with Procreate App, a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill workshop with artist Bill Singleton

Are you ready for some great skills workshops and a virtual field trip?

• Saturday, October 16 at 9 am Pacific: VIRTUAL FIEL TRIP: EXPLORE THE ALASKAN ARCTIC with Roseann. I just returned from two weeks exploring this amazing landscape; I’ll take you there virtually! See my field journal pages and narrative, here. For more details and to sign up (required, free), click here: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeCvqjkrGt2LJyrjXViL0Ztj-B1UlpQU

• Saturday and Sunday, October 23 and 24, starting 9 am Pacific: FEARLESS WATERCOLOR FOR FIELD SKETCHING, a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill workshop with Roseann. This is an expanded version of a workshop I offered earlier this year, with the addition of more teaching time and a 2-hour live in-person session at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill; if you aren’t in Tucson, you can dial in on Sunday remotely for consultation from your own field location! For more details and to sign up ($75 fee, with optional supplies to be mailed; you can also opt out of either day for a lower fee), click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fearless-watercolor-for-field-sketching-tickets-181232299687

• Saturday, November 20 at 9 am Pacific: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL NATURE SKETCHING ON IPAD WITH PROCREATE APP, a Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill workshop with artist Bill Singleton. This is a rare opportunity for a live, online class with one of the masters of field sketching, either traditionally or on an iPad. For more details and to sign up ($55 fee, with optional supplies to download), click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-digital-nature-sketching-procreate-and-ipad-tickets-181333873497

Field Arts Skills Workshop: Elegant Ink [FREE online]

Join me for a fun online workshop August 21 celebrating the art of elegant ink in our sketchbooks. While I do love color in my journal, I also love the beauty of well-wrought pen sketches.

We’ll cover types of pens and inks (from ballpoint to fountain pens, including the pluses and minuses of the types); practice mark-making and values; and work on a couple of different types of sketches using one image to create each, so we can see how different styles of linework each produce a different “feel” on your pages.

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Length: 2 hours

Start time: 9:00 am Arizona time / Pacific

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: free

Access: To protect your privacy and security online and for us to find out how many students will be attending, registration is required. Please use this link HERE.

Making a cyanometer to measure sky moisture through color

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I love simple field arts tools for my kit, and a recent discovery (thanks to our Skyscapito Appreciation Society comprising weather and cloud nerds), is the cyanometer. Encompassing the word for the primary color blue, “cyan,” it is a simple manual tool for measuring a meteorological phenomenon.

The cyanometer was developed by Swiss meteorologist and geologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1789 to measure the blueness of the sky and thus its moisture (and particle) content. The paler the sky, the more water vapor is present in the atmosphere; clouds are dense with moisture and the blue visible spectrum we see in the sky is scattered in all directions by the water in these pockets of condensing moisture, making them appear white. The darker values mean there is less water vapor so more of the pure blue spectrum is visible (and it’s most blue straight overhead). This scattering of light is known as Mie scattering (or Raleigh scattering, depending on the atomic particle size).

Saussure’s original cyanometer (left, which resides at the Bibliothèque de Genève, Switzerland) had 53 values of Prussian blue. It was held up and compared to the color of the sky to select a value. Alexander von Humboldt used the cyanometer on his voyages and explorations in the Americas in the late 1700s.

Another use for this tool would be to use it to match blue values from the sky to your notebook for getting the hues just right for different parts of a sky.

You can make your own cyanometer, choosing a blue shade that best approximates your typical regional sky. A compass and ruler are helpful to create the circle and partitions. I made mine to fit into a pocket in my journal, so it is about 5.5 inches wide.

Create a disk using a pencil and compass. Use a ruler to divide into 16 spaces. Note that I added a third circle to demarcate a space for the scale, which starts at 0 for white.

To reserve a white line between values I added wax lines using waxed paper scribed with a pencil.

I chose cobalt blue, mixing a very pale wash for the first layer, covering 1–15.

First wash is very pale. Once dry, add another wash starting with #2 and ending with #15. Continue drying, adding layers (3–15, 4–15, etc.), until halfway, when the values are saturated. 

At that point, begin adding a wash of dark blue such as indanthrone, eventually ending with pure dark.  I used a white colored pencil to enhance the numbers and lines in the dark values.

Cyanometer in use, showing a #6 value sky, which tracks well with the 42% humidity that day.

Bethan Burton, of Journaling with Nature, posted a short video of her process for making a cyanometer, which is a little different from mine. Both work really well.

You can also use this wheel to match colors in the sky to a painting in your notebook!

The next meet-up of the Skyscapito Appreciation Society is Friday, August 13 at 3 pm Pacific time, and we will be practicing making cyanometers. Details and registration link is on the Skyscapito page (link above) or in the Events and Workshops area of this website.

Skyscapitos Appreciation Society – First online meetup!

Inspired by and in collaboration with Journaling with Nature’s Bethan Burton, we’re launching our own informal “Skyscapito Appreciation Society!” A “skyscapito” is a small skyscape we create in our nature journals, similar to the “little landscapes” (landscapitos) John Muir Laws loves to create.

Join me (Roseann Hanson, of the Field Arts Institute), Bethan, and Deborah Conn as we host an hour (or a little more, if needed) of sharing our skyscapitos and our favorite colors for sky-making.

We will be doing this semi-regularly so we can all get better at this difficult subject!

This will be interactive, not a lecture: we will each bring one or two skyscapitos from our journals and share with you what paints we used, and how we went about the process.

We would like you to do the same — you don’t HAVE to but we would greatly encourage you to!

FREE but registration is required, for security reasons.

WHEN: Friday, July 16 at 4 pm Pacific (which is 9 am on the July 17th on Australia’s east coast, where Bethan is located!)

WHERE: Zoom (we will record the session and share later if you miss it; register for notifications)

LENGTH: About an hour

TO PREPARE: Bring a skyscapito or questions about challenges you have!

TO REGISTER: >CLICK HERE<

Virtual Field Trip: Let's Explore Mars! (Free Field Arts Workshop)

This workshop is over, but you can watch the recording on my Tutorials page, here:

https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials-list/2021/4/17/virtual-field-trip-lets-explore-mars

Join me on a truly out of this world virtual field trip sketching the Martian landscape!

Let’s see how many different reds we can use to depict the Red Planet as we explore the astrobiology of Mars aboard the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers. We’ll also dive into the natural history of the dunes and weather, and learn about space travel . . . all from the comfort of your Earth studio!

Sketch along or just observe, I’ll narrate as I go to demonstrate why I choose to focus on what subjects and how to quickly capture them in your field notebooks and nature journals.

If you’re shy, don’t worry—we don’t require anyone to share their work and you can remain completely anonymous and worry-free!

Length: 1.5 hours (although it might go a little over)

Start time: 10:00 am Arizona (Phoenix) / GMT - 7 

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: free

Access: To protect your privacy and security online and for us to find out how many students will be attending, registration is required. Please use this link HERE.

Cartography 101: Adding maps to your nature journals (Free Field Arts Workshop)

Let’s explore cartography for your nature journals and field sketchbooks. Adding maps is fun and although they can be challenging and even intimidating, they will greatly enhance not only your journals but your understanding of a place.

• Traditional maps with features such as contours and shading to show relief

• Linear maps that unfold or scroll from point-to-point on an exploration of a place or region

• Picture-highlight maps of a place, including non-scale ideas for quick mapping

• Behavior maps depicting such things as an animal foraging or defending a territory

This is going to be fun!

If you’re shy, don’t worry—we don’t require anyone to share their work and you can remain completely anonymous and worry-free!

Length: 2 hours

Start time: 10:00 am Arizona (Phoenix) / GMT - 7 

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: free

Access: To protect your privacy and security online and for us to find out how many students will be attending, registration is required. Please use this link HERE.

Feral Watercolor: Making paint from your own found pigments April 24, 2021

Let’s play in the dirt!

This two-and-half-hour live and interactive online workshop hosted by the Natural History Institute in Prescott, Arizona, will introduce you to the magical world of true place-based art by teaching you how to:

• find rocks and soil from which to create paint;

• how to process them into watercolor paint (also applicable to oil or other media)

Optional kit can be purchased and mailed to you in advance, containing:

• sample pigment

• binder agent

• a list of household items you can use to process the paint without a lot of expensive tools
  

Length: 2.5 hours

When: April 24, 2021

Start Time: 9:30 am Arizona / PDT / (12:30 pm EDT / GMT - 7 )

(Having trouble figuring out time zones?Use this calculator: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

Format: online via Zoom (you will receive a log-in link)

Cost: $58

To sign up: Please register with Natural History Institute at https://naturalhistoryinstitute.org/feral-watercolor-workshop-registration/

Order the optional pigment kit separately at left (from me directly)

Tucson Festival of Books—online with live events!

Draft cover art; not final cover.

Mailing list subscribers and customers will receive a special discount to pre-order this exciting adventure-thriller! CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER WITH YOUR CODE!

Join us LIVE ONLINE March 6 and 7 for the Tucson Festival of Books—we will be hosting four livestream broadcasts on our website and simulcast on Facebook (through Vimeo, where they will also be featured).

http://www.ExploringOverland.com/livestream

And breaking news!

Debuting at the online festival, a new thriller novel by Jonathan — Trail of the Jaguar: A Clayton T. Porter Adventure.

Biologist and wildlife photographer Clayton Porter witnesses what appears to be a routine drug-smuggling flight across the Arizona-Mexico border. Instead, he uncovers a sophisticated operation involving a secret lodge high in the Sierra Madre, canned hunts for endangered jaguars, a ring of opioid-dealing doctors in the U.S., and a string of cartel victims partially consumed by a large predator. After he unwittingly throws a wrench into the works, Porter becomes a target of revenge, and resorts to skills from his military service to save himself and those close to him.

Special show discounts will apply for pre-orders, either drop-shipped from Amazon or order from us for signed copies.

Schedule of LIVESTREAM talks, demos, and discounts — all at http://www.ExploringOverland.com/livestream

SATURDAY, MARCH 6:

• Tucson Festival of Books – Live demo - Free mini workshop on field sketching with Roseann Hanson - 10 am AZ time, March 6 (attend the live event for a 10% any purchase code)

• Tucson Festival of Books - Live talk and reading - Jonathan Hanson and Trail of the Jaguar novel 1 pm March 6 (AZ time)(attend the live event for a 10% any purchase code)

SUNDAY, MARCH 7:

• Tucson Festival of Books – Live demo - Free mini workshop on field sketching with Roseann Hanson - 10 am AZ time, March 7 (attend the live event for a 10% any purchase code)

• Tucson Festival of Books - Live talk and reading - Jonathan Hanson and Trail of the Jaguar novel 1 pm March 7 (AZ time) (attend the live event for a 10% any purchase code)

FROM FEB. 24 THROUGH MARCH 25:

• Tucson Festival of Books site wide discount on all books and orders 5% off with code TFB2021 at http://www.exploringoverland.com