Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
15748
Points per Word
0.000191
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
This book recounts the explorations led in the 15th century, when there were no sea charts and only primitive navigational devices. Pictures and photographs help bring the stories alive, and specially drawn relief maps show the explorers' routes.