Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has Gone Before
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has Gone Before

James Cook's three epic journey's in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, Cook had explored more of the earth's surface than anyone in history.Adventuring in the ca...
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