The First Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci In the beginning, so much depended upon pine nuts and morels. No, not buffalo as you’ve been taught—those came much later. In the beginning, it was the giant beaver whose shadow darkened the North American food chain, and who lugged his heavy beaver tail from state to would-be state as he fled the arrows of native hunters. Then corn was planted. The seeds of future books on improper diet and misuse of natural resources were sown in some southwestern … [Read more...] about An Introduction to Cosmography, Parts 1 through 5