How Long to Read Return to the Marshes

How Long Does it Take to Read Return to the Marshes?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Return to the Marshes by Gavin Young

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

Description

It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a...

How long is Return to the Marshes?

Return to the Marshes by Gavin Young is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Return to the Marshes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Return to the Marshes aloud.

What Reading Level is Return to the Marshes?

Return to the Marshes is suitable for students ages 10 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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