The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century
Author: Shulevitz, Uri
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
7823
Points per Word
0.000128
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This book is a fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Jerusalem, Persia, Egypt, and Sicily.