Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.9
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
76939
Points per Word
0.000182
Description
Captain Hornblower has been ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and destroy a fifty-gun Spanish ship, but Hornblower finds himself distracted by his newest passenger, the beautiful Lady Barbara Wellesley.