Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.0
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
79477
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.054688
Description
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1,000 years earlier.