Speaker 1 James Cook was a famous English navigator, discoverer and map maker.0:01
He was born in a small village in the north of England.0:09
At the age of 17, he was sent to learn to sail on ships.0:12
He became very interested in sea voyages and made a lot of them.0:16
He was at the head of three expeditions around the world which made the knowledge about our planet deeper and wider.0:21
The maps he made were very good for those times.0:29
He discovered many islands in the Pacific Ocean and was killed on one of them by the native people.0:33
Speaker 2 Pasc de Gama was born in Portugal.0:41
He was a famous sea traveler and lived in the 15th century.0:47
He was the first to make a voyage from Europe to India, which was very important for his country as it got new markets.0:51
The voyage was rather difficult and not very successful because the people in India were not very much interested in Portuguese goods and didn't want to buy them.0:59
But the route to India by sea was discovered and that was a great success.1:10
Speaker 3 Francis Drake was born in 1540 in England.1:17
The Drake family was rather large.1:24
Francis parents had 12 children.1:27
Francis loved the sea and left his native town fairly young.1:30
He got a ship as a gift from his friend, an old captain, and made some distant voyages.1:35
In 1577, Queen Elizabeth I sent Drake on an expedition against the Spanish.1:42
He took part in the war between England and Spain in 1585 and destroyed the ships of the enemy.1:50
He died in 1596 at the age of 56 and was buried at sea.1:58
He was considered a hero by the English and just a pirate by the Spanish.2:04
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