what country did james cook come from?
Kingdom of Great Britain
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 = = Origins and early career in Africa and the East = = 

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 According to a DNA analysis , he is a descendant through African ancestral lines of the Igbo people of Nigeria . 

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 Of humble origin , uneducated , and fatherless from a young age , he watched over his family 's flock of sheep before apprenticing to a shipbuilder near his home in present @-@ day Maine . He moved to Boston to start a business building ships and soon began to embark on treasure @-@ hunting expeditions to the West Indies . He became famous in London and Boston for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon , a feat that earned him instant wealth and a knighthood . 

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 Accounts of his studies and adventures there were eventually published in 1869 as The Malay Archipelago , which became one of the most popular books of scientific exploration of the 19th century , and has never been out of print . It was praised by scientists such as Darwin ( to whom the book was dedicated ) , and Charles Lyell , and by non @-@ scientists such as the novelist Joseph Conrad , who called it his " favorite bedside companion " and used it as source of information for several of his novels , especially Lord Jim . 
