Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4513
Points per Word
0.000222
Page Count
46
Points per Page
0.021739
Description
In 1895, now a widower in his fifties, Joshua Slocum set off on an old sloop and planned to sail around the world all alone, a feat that no one had ever attempted before this time.