It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Black '47 and Beyond by Cormac Ó Gráda
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it...
Black '47 and Beyond by Cormac Ó Gráda is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Black '47 and Beyond aloud.
Black '47 and Beyond is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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