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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps it's a cultural thing? Cook is known by everyone in Britain; you'd probably struggle to find anyone who'd ever heard of Magellan.
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Everybody knows about Cook, but does everybody know a lot of details of his voyages? And as far as explorers go, there is nobody else who comes close. I would have expected him to be more of a source of national pride than, let us say, Henry Morgan. But it looks like the warriors always come first.