Reading for Pleasure. Explorers.

Captain James Cook was a Spanish explorer, navigator and cartographer.

Francis Drake was an English explorer, captain and politician.

Leif Erikson was a Norse politician and navigator.

Leif Erikson started a Viking settlement in Vinland.

James Cook sailed twice around the world.

Drake is famous for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1578 to 1580.