How Long to Read Skirmish Hill

How Long Does it Take to Read Skirmish Hill?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 27 minutes to read Skirmish Hill by Bill Stanford

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

Description

Skirmish Hill exists in remote and off-limits Aboriginal land in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. The book generally encapsulates the time from the Second Fleet, the Death Fleet, from England to Australia, up to the sailing in 1914 of the First Convoy that carried 34 troopships of the original Anzacs to Egypt and Gallipoli, while being escorted by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The narrative's central figure, William Whitfield Mills, made his mark in colonial Australia as an outback surveyor, explorer and gold prospector and was thus selected for his participating role. He crossed paths with men and women of interest, Europeans and Indigenous alike. Together they engendered the Australian way of life and achievement since the arrival of the white man in this country. Mills is the thread that links the pages of history and allows the events to flow on the tide of revelation. The book smacks strongly of the colonial days as they were, for better and sometimes for worse. It doesn't attempt to judge but to tell it as it was, for there were endless hardships to overcome. In his explorer days, Mills blazed a tree out in the Great Victoria Desert. The author and a fellow student of Australian history set out to find that tree. It is on sacred Aboriginal land, forbidden country to enter for the white man today. That episode is described as is the return journey, on which they are granted rare permission to pass through the usually off-limits land of the Pitjantjatjara Aborigine tribe in the north-west of South Australia. Having by now learned that Mills died and was buried in an unmarked grave on an island in the midst of a salt lake in the vast Western Australian goldfields, the author and his wife undertake a wonderful journey of contemporary exploration to hopefully find his final resting place.

How long is Skirmish Hill?

Skirmish Hill by Bill Stanford is 496 pages long, and a total of 126,976 words.

This makes it 167% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Skirmish Hill Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 33 minutes to read Skirmish Hill aloud.

What Reading Level is Skirmish Hill?

Skirmish Hill 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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