How Long to Read License to Travel

By Patrick Bixby

How Long Does it Take to Read License to Travel?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read License to Travel by Patrick Bixby

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

Description

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants. See how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority. Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics. Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe. With unexpected discoveries at every turn, License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.

How long is License to Travel?

License to Travel by Patrick Bixby is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read License to Travel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read License to Travel aloud.

What Reading Level is License to Travel?

License to Travel 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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