It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read A Portrait of Lunenburg County by Peter Barss
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The legendary schooner fishing days are gone forever from the coast of Nova Scotia, but the spirit of those days, and the hard and heroic men who endured them, lives on in the stories and photographs of A Portrait of Lunenburg County. Stripped of romantic myths, told without editorial comment in the stark and simple words of fishermen themselves, here are tales of harsh conditions and sometimes cruel captains, of body-breaking work for low wages, and of tragedy and daring adventure faced amid the awesome forces of the elements. Here, too, are plain, straightforward expressions of human values...
A Portrait of Lunenburg County by Peter Barss is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.
This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read A Portrait of Lunenburg County aloud.
A Portrait of Lunenburg County is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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