Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16786
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
This book recounts the official explorations led by European governments in the 17th and 18th centuries. Pictures and photographs help bring the stories alive, and specially drawn relief maps show the explorers' routes.