Jonathan Hanson: Executive Editor

Jonathan's writing experience covers a diverse array of natural history, travel, and outdoor sports subjects and encompasses explorations on land and sea in North America, Europe, and Africa. He is the author of a dozen books, several co-authored with his wife, Roseann. He has also written for nearly two dozen magazines, and has been a correspondent for Outside Magazine. His magazine articles have ranged from African travel to natural history to outdoor equipment to guns to sailing.

Jonathan has won several awards: the Arizona Press Club Award for natural history feature writing, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the National Park Service award for interpretive excellence. His book Outside Adventure Travel: Sea Kayaking was short-listed for the Banff Award.

Jonathan has raced sailboats in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, and for several years operated a sea kayak touring business there. He has taught a variety of subjects, including wildlife tracking, nature writing, and photography, for many conservation organizations. He is an elected Fellow of the Explorers Club.

Jonathan and his wife live on a remote, off-the-grid property 35 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

Raised in the American southwest, Chris has spent the better part of his life exploring and trying to better understand the natural world around him. He is a professional writer and photographer and has been involved in vehicle-dependent adventure travel for over 15 years. Chris specializes in expedition planning and logistics, competition events, and historical route research. From living out of his Toyota for months with his wife along the length of the Baja peninsula, to navigating Thailand by Hilux, to traveling on the frozen Arctic Ocean (see the Winter 2007 issue of Overland Journal), he is always exploring and evaluating new ideas, products and methods for overland travel. His current basecamp is located in Prescott, Arizona.

Stephanie Brady: Design Director, Photographer

Stephanie is a professional designer and Certified Interior Designer with a BA in Leadership from Grand Canyon University. Stephanie's passion for design and photography, combined with her love for the outdoors allows her a unique capacity for visual adventure storytelling. Stephanie is also an accomplished driver, having piloted Jeeps across the Rubicon and Toyotas in Baja, she is as comfortable behind the wheel as she is in front of her Mac design station.

He has been an editor at publications as diverse as English Literary Renaissance and Gray's Sporting Journal, where he wrote a book review column for twelve years. He has reviewed everything from novels to natural history in many publications, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the London Times Literary Supplement to Outdoor Life. His articles, essays, and stories have appeared in publications as diverse as The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, the LA Times Magazine, Northern Lights, Double Gun Journal, and Simple Cooking, as well as in literary quarterlies. For nine years he was a founding and resident faculty member at Sterling College's Wildbranch Writers Workshop in Vermont. His most recent book, Eagle Dreams, is about the Kazakh horsemen of Mongolia. An excerpt, published in The Atlantic, is included in the anthology The Best American Travel Writing 2002. He travels as often as he can afford—which is not as often as he wishes—in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union. He is now working on many projects, including a book about the origins of dogs in Central Asia, one on the Passenger pigeon, and assisting with a translation of a 19th Century Siberian natural history book.

Tom Collins: Contributing Editor

Tom is a consultant for Land Rover and a professional off-highway driver and trainer with experience driving and navigating on the world's most challenging tracks. Tom was the team director for the US Camel Trophy Team and a participant in the 1987 Camel Trophy, Madagascar. Tom will be providing exciting stories of the Camel Trophy and his other expeditions throughout the globe.

Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Henry spent more than 15 years exploring the Llanos and northern Amazon regions of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. After four years as a professional fishing guide, Henry moved to the US to complete his education. While pursuing an undergraduate degree at Goucher College in Towson, MD and an MBA degree at Thunderbird in Glendale, AZ, Henry became heavily involved with 4x4 clubs and especially the Toyota Land Cruiser Association, becoming first a regular contributor and eventually the Marketing Manager and Guest Editor for Toyota Trails, the TLCA’s bimonthly publication. He also spent a lot of time attending TLCA events, exploring the Southwest and pushing his Toyota Land Cruiser –imported from Venezuela in 1996- to the limits.

Henry is an avid writer and photographer and amateur historian, with dozens of articles and photographs published on newspapers, magazines, calendars and websites. An incorrigible “Cruiserhead”, Henry has also done consulting work for Toyota USA, Newsday and Autoweek magazine on the early history of the Toyota Land Cruiser. Henry currently resides in Austin, TX with his wife and two young sons, who are being groomed to follow a four-generation tradition of vehicle-based exploration.