How Long to Read Running the Rapids

How Long Does it Take to Read Running the Rapids?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Running the Rapids by Kildare Dobbs

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

Description

Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panelist - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life's journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Africa and the New World, is that of the quintessential post-colonial Western man at large. In Running the Rapids Dobbs becomes voyageur. He takes us from a lamp-lit, big house childhood in 1930s Kilkenny, to college days at Cambridge in thrall to Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service protecting Allied convoys from U-boat attack during World War II. Then began his time from 1948 to 1952 as district officer in Tanganyika, where he learnt Swahili beneath the 'immense, unearthly bulk' of Kilimanjaro and was falsely imprisoned for ivory theft. He then moved to Canada to work at Macmillan publishers, co-founding The Tamarack Review and becoming managing editor of Saturday Night magazine from 1956 to 1967. During the seventies he was both columnist and books editor of the Toronto Star. He recounts his friendships with writers Brian Moore, Richard Wright and Mordecai Richler, and with Ronald Searle, Marshall McLuhan and Wilfred Thesiger, among others.

How long is Running the Rapids?

Running the Rapids by Kildare Dobbs is 242 pages long, and a total of 60,984 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Running the Rapids Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Running the Rapids aloud.

What Reading Level is Running the Rapids?

Running the Rapids 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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