How Long to Read An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War

How Long Does it Take to Read An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War by Clarence Douglas Ussher

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV A GAME OF BLUFF I HAD been in Van but ten days when my work, which had begun the evening of my arrival, was interrupted by the first of dozens of trips that I have undertaken, either on professional errands or as escort to newcomers. Miss Elizabeth Barrows, sent by the Woman's Board of Missions to take charge of the girls' schools in Van, and Miss Virginia Wilson, sent by the Friends of Armenia in London to assist Dr. Raynolds in his work for the orphans, had just left Constantinople on their way via Trebizond to the interior, when Mr. Peet telegraphed Van station, " Meet ladies with saddles Erzerum." I traveled to Erzerum by way of Bitlis, having been asked to do so by telegram, as Miss Charlotte Ely had fallen ill since my stop there in October. From Bitlis I took with me as servant a man who had accompanied to Erzerum in 1896 a party of missionaries, among whom were Mrs. Knapp, Sr., Mrs. Knapp, Jr., and Mr. Herbert [Allen, and just before we reached a particularly dangerous place in the mountains near Madjidlu, where the road was only a goat-path along the edge of a precipitous slope, he told me what had happened there on his former journey. The ladies were riding in moffahs -- large boxes with canopies -- hung on each side of a mule, some tipping of whose pack-saddle caused him to place a hind foot too near the edge of the path; the earth gave way, and down went the beast, head over heels, in spite of Garabed's hold on the halter. Mr. Allen, also seizing the halter, was pulled out of his saddle and described a halfcircle through the air. Ladies, moffahs, and mule rolled over and over down the precipitous slope for three hundred feet, landing in a snowbank upside down, the animal's four feet sticking straight up between the...

How long is An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War?

An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War by Clarence Douglas Ussher is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.

This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War aloud.

What Reading Level is An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War?

An American Physician in Turkey; a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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