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James Cook

1728 CE – 1779 CE · 51 years

The life of Captain James Cook — the Yorkshire farmhand’s son who taught himself navigation on coal ships, charted the Pacific from Antarctica to the Arctic, and changed the map of the world more than any other single explorer in history.

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