How Long to Read Lines Drawn across the Globe

How Long Does it Take to Read Lines Drawn across the Globe?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 20 minutes to read Lines Drawn across the Globe by Mary C. Fuller

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

Description

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships’ logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Principal Navigations is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globe unlocks Richard Hakluyt’s work for modern readers. Mary Fuller traces the history of the book’s compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt’s shaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of the world’s regions and of England’s real and imagined relations to them: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation, imitation – always depending on the needs of the moment. At the height of the British imperial project, Principal Navigations came to be seen and valued as a founding document of English national identity. It remains a crucial piece of evidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yet after a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt’s book needs to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenth century and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe works across the scales of Hakluyt’s collection to deliver a dazzling account of an editorial project that was fundamental to England’s encounter with the world – and the nation’s idea of itself.

How long is Lines Drawn across the Globe?

Lines Drawn across the Globe by Mary C. Fuller is 599 pages long, and a total of 155,141 words.

This makes it 202% the length of the average book. It also has 190% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lines Drawn across the Globe Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 7 minutes to read Lines Drawn across the Globe aloud.

What Reading Level is Lines Drawn across the Globe?

Lines Drawn across the Globe 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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