Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.8
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
76894
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
302
Points per Page
0.046358
Description
In 1819, the Nantucket whaleship ESSEX set off to sea with twenty seamen, only to be attacked and demolished fifteen months later by a sperm whale, and the crew set adrift for more than ninety days.