It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Hard Tack and Coffee by John Davis Billings
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee became an immediate best seller. Its author, John Billings, had served with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. He joined forces with the illustrator, Charles Reed, and utilized the many sketches of field life Reed had made during the Civil War to enliven an already fascinating text with pen and ink drawings of all aspects of a soldier's life. Included in this long out-of-print classic are chapters on living quarters, foraging, wagon trains, army rations, offences and punishments, equipment, the army mule, hospitals and much more. --from Publisher's note on dust cover.
Hard Tack and Coffee by John Davis Billings is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.
This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Hard Tack and Coffee aloud.
Hard Tack and Coffee is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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