It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester by Nigel Pickford
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate in which he sailed, the Gloucester, sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the...
Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester by Nigel Pickford is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester aloud.
Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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