It takes the average reader 5 hours and 51 minutes to read Distant Drums by Ashley Jackson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Distant Drums reveals how the colonies were central to the defense of the British Empire and the command of the oceans that underpinned it. Now in paperback, Distant Drums blends sweeping overviews of the nature of imperial defense with grassroots explanations of how individual colonies were mobilized for war, drawing on the author's specialist knowledge of the Indian Ocean and colonies, such as Bechuanaland, Ceylon, Mauritius, and Swaziland. This permits the full and dramatic range of action involved in imperial warfare to be viewed as part of an interconnected whole, from policy-makers and...
Distant Drums by Ashley Jackson is 339 pages long, and a total of 87,801 words.
This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 59 minutes to read Distant Drums aloud.
Distant Drums is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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