Captain James Cook, 18th century British navigator and explorer Hinckley c1825-1830

c1825-1830

Left to right: Abd El Aziz Yahieh Bey

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One strap goes around the body and the chair

Captain James Cook, 18th century British navigator and explorer Hinckley c1825-1830Captain James Cook, 18th century British navigator and explorer. Captain Cook (1728 1779) in naval uniform, seated, with his hand resting on a map of the world. Cook made three voyages of discovery. On the first he observed the transit of Venus and charted the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia, claiming them for Britain, and on the second he explored the Southern Ocean. The main objective of his last voyage was to find a northern sea passage