Jimmy and his small boat

Captain James Cook has a very good claim on the title of the world’s greatest explorer. He once said, that he wanted to go, ‘farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go.’

And he did.

He went places in his life that no one in Europe knew existed until he found them.

Just looking at the map takes your breath away. Someone doing these journeys by jet in business class would be worth a conversation; to do it in a wooden boat just on 30 meters long with mostly no maps that went south of the Equator is nothing short of heroic or crazy.

For more information on Cook than a sane person could possibly want, try the Captain Cook Society.