It takes the average reader 5 hours and 26 minutes to read Lorenzo Dow Turner by Margaret Wade-Lewis
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In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story--until now--has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Beginning with Turner's upbringing in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Wade-Lewis describes...
Lorenzo Dow Turner by Margaret Wade-Lewis is 323 pages long, and a total of 81,719 words.
This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 26 minutes to read Lorenzo Dow Turner aloud.
Lorenzo Dow Turner is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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