How Long to Read Celtic Lightning

How Long Does it Take to Read Celtic Lightning?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Celtic Lightning by Ken McGoogan

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

Description

An exploration of Canadian roots and identity from bestselling author Ken McGoogan With Celtic Lightning, Ken McGoogan asks the question: Who do we think we are? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this book—the fact that more than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without cultural baggage? No history, no values, no vision? Impossible. McGoogan writes that to understand who we are and where we are going, Canadians must look to cultural genealogy. He builds on the work of Richard Dawkins, who contends that ideas and values (“memes”) can be transmitted from one generation to another. Scottish and Irish immigrants arrived in Canada with values they had learned from their forebears. And they did so early enough, and in sufficient numbers, to shape an emerging Canadian nation. McGoogan highlights five of the values they imported as foundational: independence, democracy, pluralism, audacity and perseverance. He shows that these values are thriving in contemporary Canada and traces their evolution through the lives of thirty prominent individuals—heroes, rebels, poets, inventors, pirate queens—who played formative roles in the histories of Scotland and Ireland. In the nineteenth century, two charged traditions came together in Canada. That reconnection, Scottish and Irish, sparked Celtic lightning … and gave rise to a Canadian nation.

How long is Celtic Lightning?

Celtic Lightning by Ken McGoogan is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Celtic Lightning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Celtic Lightning aloud.

What Reading Level is Celtic Lightning?

Celtic Lightning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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