It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen
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"David Quammen is simply the best natural essayist working today."--Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard "Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic...
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature aloud.
Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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