Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.7
Points
26.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
148355
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
516
Points per Page
0.050388
Description
In 1834, Richard Dana, went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea.