You Wouldn't Want to Sail on a 19th-Century Whaling Ship! cover

You Wouldn't Want to Sail on a 19th-Century Whaling Ship!

Author: Cook, Peter

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.0
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 3558
Points per Word 0.000281
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.03125
Series You Wouldn't Want To...: History...World

Description

This book explains what it was like to be a cabin boy on a whaling ship in 1819, discussing the realities of life aboard ship, the catching and processing of the whale, being shipwrecked, and coming home again.