It takes the average reader 8 hours and 33 minutes to read Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi, through Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and across Texas to the Rio Grande, discovering and reporting on vestiges of what Olmsted called the Cotton...
Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz is 498 pages long, and a total of 128,484 words.
This makes it 168% the length of the average book. It also has 157% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 42 minutes to read Spying on the South aloud.
Spying on the South is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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