Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.7
Points
29.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
153142
Points per Word
0.000189
Page Count
419
Points per Page
0.069212
Description
Based on Fossey's private correspondence, journals, camp records, personal papers and interviews with her colleagues, friends and enemies, this is the story of one woman's inexhaustible passion for life--and the creatures who share it with us.