It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Shooting Balibo by Tony Maniaty
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'A brave and complex achievement. Racy and wryly reflective, one man's very moving version of history.' David Malouf In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo. Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television newsmen who followed were murdered by Indonesian troops. Maniaty reported the Balibo Five story, faced death threats and fled before the Indonesian forces invaded. The only foreign journalist left in the country was executed in cold blood. The generation-long...
Shooting Balibo by Tony Maniaty is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Shooting Balibo aloud.
Shooting Balibo is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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