How Long to Read Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals

How Long Does it Take to Read Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals by Teresa Michals

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

Description

Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had a peculiar problem: it had too many talented and ambitious officers, all competing for a limited number of command positions. Given this surplus, we might expect that a major physical impairment would automatically disqualify an officer from consideration. To the contrary, after the loss of a limb, at least twenty-six such officers reached the rank of commander or higher through continued service. Losing a limb in battle often became a mark of honor, one that a hero and his friends could use to increase his chances of winning further employment at sea. Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a leg: the famous admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, who fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye, and his lesser-known fellow amputee admirals, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon. Their stories shed invaluable light on the historical effects of physical impairment and this underexamined aspect of maritime history. Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories

How long is Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals?

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals by Teresa Michals is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals aloud.

What Reading Level is Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals?

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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