Time Travel: New York, Before It Was New York

Human migration, voyages of exploration, moving from a hunter-gather to an agrarian-civilized lifestyle, and even leisure travel, has changed the face of the planet.  Often what once was now lies beneath layers of asphalt and concrete, or the weight of both low and high-rise buildings.
In "Before New York", National Geographic senior editor Peter Miller uses the work done by ecologist Eric Sanderson to "turn back the clock to the afternoon of September 12, 1609, just before Henry Hudson and his crew sailed into New York harbor and spotted the island [of Manhattan]." Artist renditions, maps, and photographs, show the then-and-now of The Big Apple.  Sanderson identified ecosystems, then figured out which animals lived where before man re-made the landscape.

We don't have Jules Verne's time machine to transport us back to the early 17th century, but National Geographic has done a nice job of taking us there anyway.  Just click here to take the trip to a familiar place in an unfamiliar time.