It takes the average reader 1 hour and 39 minutes to read A History of the Wind by Alain Corbin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind’s storied history. He shows how, before the nineteenth century, the noisy emptiness of wind was experienced and described only according...
A History of the Wind by Alain Corbin is 97 pages long, and a total of 24,929 words.
This makes it 33% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 16 minutes to read A History of the Wind aloud.
A History of the Wind is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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