It takes the average reader 4 hours to read How the Canyon Became Grand by Stephen J. Pyne
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of...
How the Canyon Became Grand by Stephen J. Pyne is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read How the Canyon Became Grand aloud.
How the Canyon Became Grand is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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