Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland

Explorers have been keeping hand-written field notes—with or without sketches—for hundreds of years, if not many millennia (on observing many rock art sites, I’ve been struck by the possibility that early humans were using rock and pigment to record their travels and nature information for hunting a

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Lessons from the Field — Field Arts Roseann Hanson — Exploring Overland

The Westward Expansion Trails California Trail Interpretive Center

The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) by Meriwether Lewis Lewis and clark, North american landscapes, William clark

Field Notes Limited Editions Archive

Field Arts Roseann Hanson — Exploring Overland

Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland

What is Overlanding?

Explorers - Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Field Arts Roseann Hanson — Exploring Overland

Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland

Field Notes: A Glimpse Inside Great Explorers' Notebooks – The Marginalian

Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland

Meet the Participants of the 2022 Four Wheeler Overland Adventure Presented by Jeep

Field notes, a historical perspective — Exploring Overland